MANILA, Philippines - Investigators are looking into clan war or “rido” as a motive in the killing of a barangay chairman from Zamboanga Sibugay in Pasig City on April 19, an official said yesterday.
Eastern Police District (EPD) director Chief Superintendent Miguel Laurel said police teams are hunting down an Army corporal who was identified by witnesses as the man who shot dead Adjed Yusof, chairman of Barangay Mamagin in Naga town.
“The family of Yusof and that of the Army corporal are at war with each other. It’s a rido,” said a police investigator. Laurel has coordinated with the Army corporal’s unit in Fort Bonifacio to take him in and answer for the killing of Yusof.
The EPD chief clarified that Yusof was not killed by a “sniper” as earlier reported but by a man who pushed the victim’s companion aside before shooting at him.
Investigators recovered several spent shells and slugs from a .45 caliber automatic pistol from the crime scene. Yusof died on the spot from a gunshot wound in the head.
Yusof and his fellow members of the Liga ng mga Barangay in Naga town were in Metro Manila to attend a disaster response seminar.
He was about to step into a bus waiting for them along Escriva Drive in Barangay San Antonio when he was attacked.