Utility worker shot by tandem riders
STA. MARIA–A utility worker doubling as security guard of the municipal government here is now in serious condition after he was shot by two men riding tandem on a motorcycle in the afternoon of September 17.
The victim, Rannie Carbonel, 46, was on board his motorcycle while on his way home to Barangay San Mariano from work when the gunman, the back-rider of another motorcycle, opened fire, hitting him in various parts of his body.
He was rushed to the Sacred Heart Hospital in Urdaneta City and before he was operated on, he was able to identify to investigators the suspects who shot him.
A follow-up investigation conducted by policemen led by Senior Inspector Roldan Suetos, town chief of police, led to the arrest of Romano Bautista at the premises of town Councilor Junjun Macaraeg and Ednan Aniaga in Barangay San Pablo.
Bautista, recently released from jail after filing a bail bond for a case of illegal possession of firearm filed against him, was arrested with a gun in his clutch bag while in the vicinity of the office of the town mayor.
The motive for the shooting could be that Bautista suspected Carbonnel as the one who tipped off the police that he was carrying a firearm at that time.
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