by Miriam G. Desacada
Calbayog City–Illegal drugs have been eyed among the possible motives in the killing of the 46-year-old police officer of the Calbayog City Police Station in Samar at about noontime on Friday (August 11).
The victim, identified as P/Staff Sergeant Rey Mondarte Alcazar, died on the spot when two unidentified men approached and shot him, while he was about to board his black Strada pickup at Narcisa Subdivision (Phase 1) in Barangay Rawis of Calbayog City.
According to a report from case investigator, P/S.Sgt Bartolome Bagot Jr., Alcazar just came out of a drinking session at the house of a certain Mary Jane Ocheva, and was about to board his vehicle on his way home when the two men fired shots and hit him in the different parts of his body.
Responding policemen, in coordination with the City PNP Forensic Unit recovered from the crime scene 26 fired cartridge cases, two fired bullets, and two live bullets, all of caliber .45 gun.
The lifeless body of the victim was taken to a funeral parlor where the autopsy or post-mortem examination was conducted.
Samar Police Provincial Office (SPPO) Director, P/Colonel Peter Limbauan, said initial investigation, this early somehow pointed at illegal drugs matter as one possible motive in the killing.
He however clarified that, contrary to some speculations, there has been no information yet that Alcazar was killed because he was one of the few who identified the suspected killers of the later city mayor Ronald Aquino.
Limbauan assured the public that this recent killing of the policeman will be solved at the soonest possible considering the implementation of new strategy of his command’s anti-criminality campaign.
Alcazar is the 10th victim that was killed in Calbayog City for the past eight months. —Miriam G. Desacada