Malabon City Mayor Lenlen Oreta yesterday offered a P100,000 cash reward for anyone who could provide information on the suspect in the killing of a former city councilor and seriously wounding three others on Saturday night.
Oreta also appealed to the National Bureau of Investigation and the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group to help the local police in their investigation of the killing of former city councilor Eddie Nolasco.
He also called on his critics, particularly his political rivals, to be calm and cautious and refrain from hurling malicious lies and accusations.
The mayor’s family was accused of murdering the former councilor.
Nolasco, 61, who was also the chairman of Barangay Potrero, died instantly from bullet wounds in the head and the body while three others, identified as Servando Sotto, Fernando Tongco, and Michael Servando, sustained gunshot wounds in their bodies and were rushed to the Manila Central University and the Jose Reyes Memorial and Medical Center for treatment.
The victims were at a birthday party on Rivera Street at 9:30 p.m. when an unidentified assailant wearing a bullcap shot them several times.
Malabon police head of investigators Insp. Paul Dennis Javier said they are looking at several angles in the killing of Nolasco, including personal grudge and political rivalry.
They said Nolasco was accused of raping a woman on August 14, 2014 and had gone into hiding. He also survived an ambush last November 2013 and had a spat with a Caloocan policeman several years ago.