MANILA – Police formed a “special investigation task group” that will look into the fatal shooting of Ozamiz City Executive Judge Edmundo Pintac.
Pintac was one of the judges handling the cases involving the Parojinog drug cartel, particularly against Vice Mayor Nova Princess Parojinog and brother Reynaldo.
Pintac was shot to death at around 4:20 p.m. on Monday in Barangay Banadero, Ozamiz City, said Police Regional Office 10 spokesperson Superintendent Surki Sereñas.
In August last year Pintac denied a plea by the Parojinog siblings for furlough to allow them to attend the funeral of their parents, then Ozamiz City mayor Reynaldo Parojinog and wife Susan, who were killed along with 13 others in a drug raid by police on July 30, 2017.
Ozamiz police director Senior Superintendent Emmanuel Hebron will lead the task group, Chief Superintendent Benigno Durana Jr., spokesman for the Philippine National Police, told a news conference Tuesday.
“Tinitignan lahat ng anggulo sa pagpaslang. I just talked [to] the [officer-in-charge] of the Ozamiz (police) looking into the cases that are being handled or have been handled by the late judge para matingnan ang possible motive at makita din possible suspect sa pagpaslang,” Durana told reporters.
Investigators were also set to talk to the slain judge’s family.
“It is prudent for the investigators to give the family a little space for them to grieve before our investigators can sit down with them para matingnan kung meron ngang death threats so that we can narrow down the possible motives and at the same time the possible suspects,” said Durana. (PNA)
