ILOILO City – He was inside his house getting ready to sleep when he got shot.
The 63-year-old carpenter Donato Mergencio of Barangay Camambugan, Dingle, Iloilo died, a police report showed.
The shooting happened around 11:30 p.m. on Jan. 12 at Mergencio’s residence, the report added.
Two armed men barged into Mergencio’s house and fired at the latter using a still undetermined caliber gun, police said.
The victim sustained three gunshot wounds on the head. He died on the spot.
Officers from the Dingle police station were still identifying the suspects, who fled onboard a motorcycle.
They have yet to establish the motive in the incident as of this writing./PN