Another Kapitan shot dead
SAN FABIAN–The chairman of Barangay Tocok here was shot and killed on January 20 while on his way to the town plaza for the Barangay Night that culminated San Fabian’s town fiesta last week.
Arsenio ‘Ambet” Bucao, 49, on his second term, died from a single bullet wound on the left side of his head while he was being treated at the Decena Hospital in Dagupan.
Chief Inspector Abubakar Mangilin, chief of police of San Fabian, said a Special Investigation Task Group (SITG) headed by the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) has been formed to help the San Fabian police solve the case within 24 hours.
The motive for the killing has yet to be established but two suspects have already been picked up for questioning.
Fourth District Rep. Gina de Venecia, who was guest of honor and speaker during the Barangay Night, was visibly shaken by the incident that happened about only 100 meters away from the town plaza.
De Venecia asked the police to leave no stone unturned in bringing the killers of the barangay kapitan to justice.
Mangilin said Bucao had just alighted from his patrol vehicle parked along the national highway when two men approached him and shot him.
Bucao was with his son-in-law and a barangay tanod, Glen Quezon, who was driving the patrol car.
Kagawad Freddie de Vera of Tocok told newsmen that he knew Bucao as a peaceful man and was unaware of any threat on his life.
He said Bucao was a good leader who introduced a system wherein one kagawad is designated as officer-of-the day for at least for a week to help in the community’s affairs. This system is now being adopted by other barangays within San Fabian.
After retiring from his job with a private company in Manila, Bucao returned to San Fabian to run for barangay captain and won three years ago against the incumbent Hermie Ferrer by 35 votes.
In their return bout in October last year, Bucao beat Ferrer by more than 100 votes.
Likely to succeed Bucao as kapitan is Kagawad Danilo Ferrera who placed number one in the race for the seven-man barangay council in the last election.—LM
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