QCPD talks to BIR for Amora slay leads

The Quezon City Police District (QCPD) will look into the tax cases filed by Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) official Jonas Amora as investigators have yet to establish leads two days after he was shot dead. QCPD director Senior Supt. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar is set to meet with BIR Commissioner Cesar Dulay to check if the killing was related to Amora’s work as BIR director for Makati City. “Rest assured we are doing something about this case…We will have to look at the cases he has filed in BIR,” Eleazar said on Wednesday. Around 5 a.m. on Monday, two men on a motorbike fired at the car carrying Amora on Katipunan Avenue near the corner of Topside Road, killing him and wounding his driver, Angelito Pineda. The QCPD has obtained five security video clips retracing Amora’s route from Marikina that morning. The first three clips, from Tayug, Riverbanks Center and Industrial Valley Complex, showed the gunmen tailing Amora’s car from Marcos Highway, then overtaking it in Barangay Escopa. Footage from another camera on Katipunan showed the gunmen waiting at the dimly lit corner of the road. Amora’s car then entered the frame and stopped on the roadside. The car blocked the view of the gunmen, whose faces and motorbike license plate were also unclear. Pineda was later seen walking out of the car before falling down on his knees. The driver, whowas shot in the face, remained in the hospital as of Wednesday.