CAMP FLORENDO—A lawyer handling several illegal drug cases was gunned down by unidentified suspects in Barangay Sta. Monica in Magsingal, Ilocos Sur on Thursday afternoon.
Reports reaching this Camp said the victim, identified as Atty. Melver Tolentino, 42, a resident of San Lucas in Magsingal town, was on his car and briefly stopped at a gasoline station when the assailants riding a motorcycle shot him with an M-16 armalite rifle.
The lawyer allegedly suffered several gunshot wounds in his head and body and was declared dead on the spot.
Investigators recovered 21 empty armalite shells at the crime scene after the suspects fled.
Authorities are determining weather Tolentino’s drug cases were related to the killing.
The victim also served as legal counsel of the Ilocos Sur provincial board.