{"id":42374,"date":"2015-02-15T20:55:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T12:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=42374"},"modified":"2025-01-10T08:04:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T13:04:35","slug":"hard-hitting-bohol-radio-commentator-shot-dead-on-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/02\/15\/hard-hitting-bohol-radio-commentator-shot-dead-on-valentines-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard-hitting Bohol radio commentator shot dead on Valentine&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5954\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5954\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_102402700-e1418457312407.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5954\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_102402700-e1418457312407.jpg\" alt=\"Shutterstock photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_102402700-e1418457312407.jpg 365w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_102402700-e1418457312407-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5954\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shutterstock photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; A hard-hitting radio commentator of Station DYRD in Bohol was gunned down on Valentine&#8217;s Day by an unidentified gunman as the victim was about to disembark from his vehicle right in front of the station complex in Tagbilaran City.<\/p>\n<p>Maurito Lim, 71, a block timer,and a retired engineer of the National Power Corp. (NPC), succumbed to a bullet wound in the head, according to Peter P. Dejaresco, station manager of DYRD.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy keflex online <a href=\"https:\/\/waynegeneralhospital.org\/home-health\/html\/keflex.html\">https:\/\/waynegeneralhospital.org\/home-health\/html\/keflex.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Lim was the 34th journalist in the Philippines murdered the past four years.<\/p>\n<p>The gunman used a .45 caliber pistol in killing Lim,<\/p>\n<p>Rescue 117 of the Tagbilaran City government rushed Lim to the Dr. Celestino Gallares Medical Center, which is just a stone&#8217;s throw away from the crime scene but expired at about 1:15 p.m., two hours after he was shot.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect hurriedly fled on board a motorcycle toward the town of Baclayon. Unfortunately, passers-by failed to list down the plate number of the gunman&#8217;s motorbike.<\/p>\n<p>Police immediately launched a manhunt but as of Saturday night the suspect continued to elude arrest.<\/p>\n<p>However, the police are trying to establish the plate number through a CCTV near the crime scene.<\/p>\n<p>The employees of station DYRD and its sister enterprise, the Bohol Chronicle, panicked after hearing the gunshot nearby.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy chloroquine online <a href=\"https:\/\/waynegeneralhospital.org\/home-health\/html\/chloroquine.html\">https:\/\/waynegeneralhospital.org\/home-health\/html\/chloroquine.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Dejaresco said Lim was about to disembark from his van when the gunman slipped from behind the victim&#8217;s vehicle and without warning shot the radioman at close range.<\/p>\n<p>He was about to enter the station&#8217;s premises for his weekly radio program when he was shot.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy neurontin online <a href=\"https:\/\/waynegeneralhospital.org\/home-health\/html\/neurontin.html\">https:\/\/waynegeneralhospital.org\/home-health\/html\/neurontin.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Lim was a hard-hitting radio commentator, exposing the proliferation of drugs in Bohol.<\/p>\n<p>Police are now thoroughly investigating on what triggered the slaying of Lim, the first Boholano journalist killed in Bohol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; A hard-hitting radio commentator of Station DYRD in Bohol was gunned down on Valentine&#8217;s Day by an unidentified &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":5954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","mauthors-ben-cal","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282215,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42374\/revisions\/282215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}