Superintendent Winston Ebersole, 55, was about to board his owner-type jeep in front of his house in Barangay Labangan when the gunman shot him in the chest and head, according to Chief Superintendent Domingo Reyes, Southern Tagalog police director.
The Associated Press said the NPA claimed responsibility for the killing, saying Ebersole "was punished for his blood debts."
An NPA spokesman, Victor Rivero, alleged in a statement that Ebersole had a hand in the killing in the 1980s of farmer-activists and some guerrilla leaders, AP said. Arnell Ozaeta