Trader’s bullet-riddled body found in Pasay

The bullet-riddled body of a 33-year-old businessman was found in an abandoned car in Pasay City early yesterday morning.

Senior Inspector Reynaldo Barral, Pasay police criminal investigation chief, identified the victim as Charlito Tuscano, married, of 7-B Dalton St., Veterans Village, Barangay Holy Spirit, Quezon City.

Tuscano’s bloody body was found by bystanders slumped in the front passenger seat of a white Nissan Sentra with plate number UKC-848 parked along Santa Escolastica street at around 7 p.m.

Police forensic experts said that he was riddled with gunshot wounds all over.

Barral said they are now after one Tony Bagtas, reportedly an employee at the PNP Firearms and Explosive Division (FED) in Camp Crame, Quezon City, who was tagged as the prime suspect in the killing.

Bagtas, it was learned was tagged by the victim’s wife, Janet, as the last person who was with her husband before he was discovered dead yesterday morning.

Janet told police that she and her husband went to a friend’s house in the Madrigal Compound near the corner of Russel street and F.B. Harrison street at around 7 p.m. Wednesday.

Janet said she went into her friend’s house and left her husband with Bagtas in their Mitsubishi Hi-Lander.

When she came back several minutes later, her husband and Bagtas were gone from the car.

After looking for the two for some time, Janet said she received a call from Bagtas on her cellular phone and Bagtas told her to be careful as the man who killed her husband was still in the vicinity.

Despite the threat, she immediately went to the police to report the incident.