By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga
A newly-elected Pontevedra barangay kagawad was shot dead over the weekend by still-unidentified gunmen.
Police identified the fatality as 52-year-old Barangay General Malvar Kagawad Salvacion Samson, a resident of Sitio Tamsik in the said barangay.
Based on statements by Samson’s live-in partner, Dennis Palacios, the victim was on her mobile phone when two gunmen, both wearing bonnets, entered their home and opened fire.
Samson was killed on the spot, sustaining multiple gunshot wounds to the head and chest.
Palacios, meanwhile, did not know why the gunmen targeted Samson, stating, the victim did not have any prior confrontation with her fellow barangay kagawads./DGB, WDJ