Daneco engr gunned down

THE Montevista Municipal Police Station is conducting a hot pursuit operation and tightening up of security in all its checkpoints after an employee of Davao del Norte Electric Cooperative, Inc. (Daneco) was gunned down.

The incident happened at 12:10 p.m. at Purok 1-C, Barangay San Jose Poblacion, Montevista in Compostela Valley Province.

Police Senior Inspector Sawiden Q. Nor, chief of Montevista Municipal Police Station, identified the victim as Engineer Glen G. Daclan, 46, married, a resident of Purok 11, Barangay Bliss in Monkayo and an Engineering System Planning chief of Daneco.

"Nagkaon ang biktima sa iyang paniudto didto sa karenderya sa Purok 1-C kalit miabot ang duha ka mamumuno, sakay sa motorsiklo, dayon gipusil ang biktima kinsa dead on

the spot (The victim was eating lunch at a carenderia at Purok 1-C when two men onboard a motorcycle shot him and was killed on the spot)," Nor said in a phone interview with Superbalita.

He added that they already conducted a hot pursuit operation and added checkpoints to apprehend the suspects.

Three empty shells of .45 caliber were found at the crime scene.

The body of the victim now lies at the morgue of Saint Peter Funeral Parlor at Purok 4, Poblacion, Montevista, Comval.

Investigation is still ongoing to determine the motive of the crime and to identify the suspects.

It can be recalled that there were already three Daneco employees who were gunned down by riding-in-tandem killers, and one of them was Engineer Maximo Roxas who was killed last October 2016 in Barangay Poblacion, Nabunturan, Comval.

Rogelio Butalid and Gregorio Ibañez were also gunned down several years back. JEEPY P. COMPIO