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Lone suspect shoots, kills ex-Bulacan town vice mayor

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PANDI, Bulacan—Police are investigating whether the Monday evening killing of a former vice mayor here is politically related or not.

Police said that former vice mayor Roberto Rivera, 61, resident of Barangay Bunsuran, was driving his white Nissan pick-up truck and heading home from his piggery farm in Barangay Manatal here when he was shot several times at point-blank range at around 6 p.m.

Reports said that a lone suspect shot Rivera three times in the head and once in the body.

The victim was brought to the Rogaciano District Hospital in nearby Sta. Maria town but was declared dead-on-arrival by doctors.

Chief Inspector Victor Bernabe, town police chief, said investigators gathered from some witnesses that the suspect boarded a tricycle before transferring to a blue car after shooting the former vice mayor.

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“We are following leads that will help us establish the identity of the killer. We still cannot say if the incident is politically related since the victim is not running for any position in the coming elections,” he said.

Relatives of Rivera told police that the victim had received death threats but ignored them.

Rivera was a known staunch supporter of mayoral candidate Celestino Marquez of the Kilusang Bagong Lipunan Party, who is running against reelectionist mayor Enrico Roque in the May 9 polls.

Rivera served as vice mayor of Pandi from 1992 to 1998.

He started a farm business which he was personally managing while at the same time supporting the candidacy of mayoral candidate Marquez. 

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