Cop shot dead by colleague

BACOLOD CITY, Philippines — A police officer was arrested after he allegedly shot dead his colleague in Barangay Tangub in this city.

The victim, a non-commissioned officer with the rank of staff sergeant, was declared dead on arrival in a hospital.

Pat. Alvin Rios, 26, of the Iloilo Provincial Mobile Force Company was apprehended by responding police officers.

Maj. Eugene Tolentino, Bacolod police Station 8 chief, said the incident could be a crime of passion.

Initial investigation showed that the shooting occurred in the bedroom of a house owned by Rios and his former partner.

The suspect reportedly saw his former partner and the victim in the bedroom when he visited their six-month-old son.