PJAMESTREMEDAL
Associate editor
A member of the 905th Provincial Mobile Group (PMG) assigned as a police investigator was shot, Tuesday, along with his companion while riding a motorcycle for work.
PO3 Dexter Dalena and a police asset identified as Ronald Edo were riding Dalena’s XR 200 motorcycle enroute to Camp Abelon when the incident happened.
However, at the corner of Ariosa and V. Sagun streets, near the Sangguniang Panlungsod building, two assailants suddenly came out of nowhere and ambushed them.
Dalena was hit at the nape and chest and was take to a nearby hospital while Edo suffered contusions in his cheek and nose bridge.
The policeman, accordingly, is now recuperating.
Police investigation disclosed that the suspects used a .45 caliber in shooting the two victims and casually walked away towards a waiting DT motorcycle then fled.
Meanwhile, PNP Provincial Director Ramon Ochotorena has ordered a manhunt against the two shooters whose identities were given by Edo who claimed to have positively identified their assailants.
Police Superintendent Nelson Eucogco told this paper that his office will also conduct a separate probe on Dalena’s shooting to determine whether the shooting had something to do with the filing of various high profile cases against the suspects by the policeman.