By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga

San Carlos City Police Station investigators are considering three possible motives behind Wednesday’s murder of sugarcane workers’ group leader and radio personality Julius Broce Barellano.

San Carlos City deputy police chief, Police Chief Inspector Anthony Grande, said they are looking at the possibilities of a land conflict, personal grudge, or his position as a local radio reporter as motives.

Grande said an autopsy revealed the local workers’ group leader sustained nine bullet wounds, which ultimately killed him.

Barellano, a radio reporter for Radyo Bandera Sweet FM and leader of the Hacienda Medina Farm Workers Association, a local National Federation of Sugarcane Workers (NFSW) chapter, was inside his home with his aunt and wife and was about to leave when riding-in-tandem suspects opened fire.

NFSW, meanwhile, claimed a certain Wellington Uy was behind Barellano’s murder.

San Carlos City police have not yet name him as a primary suspect and are still conducting an investigation./DGB, WDJ