Catmon brgy. councilor shot dead
Victim surrendered last August in Operation Tokhang, but returned to drugs, police say
Jeffrey Comeros, 40, barangay councilor of San Jose in Catmon, was fixing a vehicle with a companion when an unidentified suspect wearing a bonnet shot him several times
A BARANGAY councilor in Catmon who was also a drug surrenderer was killed by an unidentified gunman last Friday evening.
Jeffrey Comeros, 40, barangay councilor of San Jose in Catmon, was fixing a vehicle with a companion when an unidentified suspect wearing a bonnet shot him several times.
“Based sa mga estorya, duna na siyay mga custom- er sa una nga dawaton niya unya dili siya katuman sa ilang sabot. So we’re looking at a personal grudge (He allegedly had customers before who got angry at him for not keeping their deals),” Senior Insp. Alexander Nunez, chief of the Catmon police, told Sun.Star Cebu.
surrendered to police last Aug. 22 in the Oplan Tokhang and was registered as a drug user.
“We’re also looking into a drug-related angle because he might have returned to drugs again,” Nunez said in Cebuano.
Comeros was an auto mechanic. He owned a shop beside the national highway of San Jose where he was shot to death at 6:10 p.m. last Friday.
Hospital
He was rushed to the Juan Dosado Memorial Hospital but he didn’t make it there alive.
The Catmon police are still investigating the incident.
What made it difficult for the authorities was that the victim’s companion during the incident could not remember how the gunman looked.
Personalities
Nunez said there were drug personalities who surrendered to their station but they received reports that they went back to selling drugs.
In Cebu City, Janno Rayton, 24 was also shot by unidentified men on Pedro Calomarde St., Barangay Kamputhaw last Friday evening.
In an initial investigation by the Homicide section, the victim was walking on the road when men on a motorcycle shot him twice at 10:30 p.m.
Police recovered two empty shells fired from a caliber .45 at the crime scene. JOB