Man, 50, shot in Lemery

BY RHENJIE MARIE CALANTAS

ILOILO – A 50-year-old man was shot to death in Sitio Muhangin, Barangay Gerongan, Lemery, Iloilo.

Mario Casumpang was a married resident of the barangay.

A suspect had been named – 35-year-old Rey Asong.

Casumpang was gambling in their dead neighbor’s house when attacked, according to Police Lieutenant Francis Bataliones, officer-in-charge of the Lemery police station.

Casumpang got hit on the chest.

The suspect fled. As of this writing, his whereabouts remained unknown.

According to the police, a motive in the shooting could be that the suspect was suspicious that the victim to have stolen his cow. /PN

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