Trike driver gunned down in Waterfront area
Police are still facing a blank wall on the motive and suspect behind the killing of a tricycle driver early morning yesterday at the Waterfront area, Iloilo City.
Residents of Brgy. Zamora Extension, City Proper district were awakened at around 3:30 a.m. after three successive gunfires.
When they checked out, they were treated to a sight of a man slumped on the pavement and was bathing in his pool of blood.
But aside from the victim and his tricycle with its engine still on, no one was seen in the area.
Residents claimed that they could not identify the victim.
Shortly later, members of the Waterfront Detachment arrived and so was the ambulance of the Iloilo City Emergency Rescue (ICER) which brought the victim to Iloilo St. Paul’s Hospital.
However, the victim did not pull through.
He succumbed to gunshot injuries on the stomach and back of his body.
Police only recovered two empty shells of caliber .40 pistol in the area.
The victim’s belt bag containing P40 was apparently intact and so is his P300 placed in his pants.
Amid queries on the victim’s identity, a woman, who claimed to be the victim’s second wife, arrived at the hospital.
Aimee Pineda identified the victim as her lived-in partner, 28-year old Bernard Masculino.
She claimed that Masculino left at around 8:00 in the evening of Monday and she heard nothing from him until a neighbor told her about the shooting incident.
Pineda also claimed that she knew no person who might have harbored grudges against her partner.
