A fish trader was shot dead Sunday evening during a drinking session with friends in Purok 7, Barangay Balud, Calbayog City, Samar.
Calbayog PNP OIC Chief P/Supt. Ernesto Salvador Tagle identified the victim as Danilo Rosima y Din, 55, a resident of the said barangay. He sustained a lone gunshot wound in his forehead that resulted in his death.
Responding policeman P/Insp. Noel Justiniano Sagadal along with duty investigator SPO3 Mariano Fermilan said that victim was no longer in the place of incident when they arrived as he was already brought to the Our Lady of Porziuncola Hospital Inc. for immediate medical attention.
Sagadal said that they were informed that victim had been pronounced dead on arrival by attending physician Rophil Asuero.
Sagadal said that witnesses said the victim was drinking with friends in front of a store when a man wearing long pants, sleeveless shirt, with his face half-covered by a white towel and armed with a calibre 45 pistol shot the victim.
The unidentified suspect immediately fled on foot towards Barangay Hamorawon in this city.
The police recovered from the crime scene one empty shell of cal. 45 pistol.
The local police are conducting a thorough investigation to establish the motive of the killing and to determine the identity of the suspect.