Senior Superintendent Amerodin Hamdag, city police director, identified the fatalities as Datu Mutalib Midtimbang, a scion of an influential political clan in Talayan, Maguindanao, and Arnold Florido, chairman of Barangay Rosary Heights IV, a vote-rich area.
Midtimbang was in front of his house when the gunman clad in a police uniform, shot him.
He is a close relative of Datu Midpantao Midtimbang, former vice governor of Maguindanao and a popular member of the Tabligh, an influential Muslim missionary group.
Florido, on the other hand, was on his way home from the barangay hall when a bicycle-riding man shot him twice from behind with a caliber .45 pistol, killing him on the spot.  John Unson