Homicide raps up vs brgy kagawad in Pototan killing
A 40 year-old barangay official of Barangay Tumucon Ilaya, Pototan, Iloilo faces homicide raps for the Saturday killing of a 22 year-old resident.
Police identified the respondent-official as Barangay Kagawad Wilfredo Gonzales who also surrendered to authorities and detained minutes after the incident.
In a report, The News Today learned that Gonzales apparently was angered over the display and reported rowdiness of the victim Ebonie Palma and pals at the height of a public dance party in said barangay.
PO3 John Pasaporte of the Pototan Police Office said witness accounts similarly told of sudden gunshot heard by the dancehall moments after Palma and his group were doing the "dirty dancing", playfully showing off their underpants. The suspected shooter-official was earlier seen berating the victim and his friends.
Barangay folks responded to the shooting and rushed Palma to the hospital however attending physicians declared him dead on arrival.
Probers recovered the .38 caliber revolver believed to have been used in the shooting.