STA. MARIA, Bulacan—Local officials of this town offered a P100,000 reward to anyone who can pinpoint the suspect and the mastermind in the killing of a municipal employee here last week.
Mayor Bartolome Ramos of this town said they will give P100,000 reward for the resolution of the killing of Cynthia Calo, 43, secretary at the office of the league of the association of barangay captains (ABC)who was shot dead while on her way home last July 7.
Ramos said the killing of Calo could be politically motivated as the victim is known as one of his close supporters.
He said the victim has been helping in facilitating registration of new voters in different barangays of this town.
According to Ramos, he might request the Commission on Election to place Barangay Pulong Buhangin under Comelec control in next year’s election.
He said that during the 2007 election, there had been eight to nine cases of killings related to politics in the said village, but all remain unsolved.
A barangay secretary of Pulong Buhangin for 13 years, Calo was recently assigned at the Association of Barangay Captains’s (ABC) league office at this town’s municipal hall.
Police said the victim who had just come from her work at the municipal building in Poblacion, alighted from a passenger jeep and was walking bound to her house when an armed man suddenly approached her, wrapped his arm around her and shot her on her body.
When she fell on the ground, the suspect fired on her again.
Police have yet to rule out robbery in the incident as not all the valuables of the victim were taken from her.
Mayor Bartolome Ramos of this town said they will give P100,000 reward for the resolution of the killing of Cynthia Calo, 43, secretary at the office of the league of the association of barangay captains (ABC)who was shot dead while on her way home last July 7.
Ramos said the killing of Calo could be politically motivated as the victim is known as one of his close supporters.
He said the victim has been helping in facilitating registration of new voters in different barangays of this town.
According to Ramos, he might request the Commission on Election to place Barangay Pulong Buhangin under Comelec control in next year’s election.
He said that during the 2007 election, there had been eight to nine cases of killings related to politics in the said village, but all remain unsolved.
A barangay secretary of Pulong Buhangin for 13 years, Calo was recently assigned at the Association of Barangay Captains’s (ABC) league office at this town’s municipal hall.
Police said the victim who had just come from her work at the municipal building in Poblacion, alighted from a passenger jeep and was walking bound to her house when an armed man suddenly approached her, wrapped his arm around her and shot her on her body.
When she fell on the ground, the suspect fired on her again.
Police have yet to rule out robbery in the incident as not all the valuables of the victim were taken from her.
