By Ronron
May 2, 2007
One of the wounded victims in the San Carlos City, Pangasinan shooting incident last Saturday was tagged by police as one of the two gunmen who shot dead city mayor Julian Resuello and his civilian aide.
Chief Supt. Samuel Pagdilao, Jr., spokesman of the Philippine National Police (PNP), said on Wednesday that Angelito Soriano, 38, one of the seven wounded persons, was identified by fellow wounded victim SPO1 Jose Almoite as one of the perpetrators.
“The wounded policeman (Almoite) who traded shots with the suspects identified Angelito Soriano as one of the gunmen… He (Soriano) was brought to the bedside of SPO1 Almoite in Virgen Milagrosa Hospital and was pinpointed as the gunman,” Pagdilao said.
Soriano was being treated at the Elguera Hospital in San Carlos City due to a gunshot wound on his leg.
Police are still conducting background check on him, including his relationship, if any, with the political rivals of the Resuello’s in the city, the family of mayoralty candidate Douglas Soriano.
Pagdilao said the paraffin test conducted on Soriano the other day (Tuesday) also yielded positive result about the presence of gunpowder nitrates on his right hand.
With this material piece of evidence, police immediately filed on Tuesday night charges of double murder and multiple frustrated murder before the city prosecutor’s office against Soriano, a certain Cesar de Guzman (alias Kabesa, whose sketch was already released earlier on Tuesday), and two John Does.
Pagdilao said de Guzman was also positively identified by the two witnesses of the police since he used to be an errand boy of the late Resuello. De Guzman remains at large as of this writing, although manhunt operation against him is still ongoing.
Pagdilao said concerned citizens in the city made additional contributions to increase the reward money for de Guzman’s capture from P300,000 to P500,000.
The police spokesman refused to say that the case is already solved despite the arrest of one of the suspects, the identification of the other, and the filing of the case, saying investigators are still working out on the possibility that the two could have just been ordered to kill Resuello.
Resuello died on Monday morning at the St. Luke’s Medical Center in Quezon City, while his aide, Eulogio Martinez, 41, died on the spot during the attack, which happened while the mayor was gracing the coronation night of the Miss San Carlos City beauty pageant at the city plaza in celebration of the city’s fiesta.
Aside from Soriano and Almoite, five other persons were wounded in said incident, namely: 1) Jonathan dela Cruz, 34, Resuello’s civilian aide; 2) Alwin Fermin, 29, spectator; 3) Paulo Biso, 14, spectator; 4) Reyna Muñoz, 9, spectator; and, 5) Domingo Mamaril, 52, spectator.
The camp of Domingo Soriano had already denied involvement in the attack, said PNP Chief Gen. Oscar Calderon.
Resuello was supposed to run for vice mayor this coming elections, while his son, Julier, will attempt to replace him in the mayoralty post.
The deadly shooting incident has resulted in the placing of San Carlos City under the control of the Commission on Elections./DMS
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