By Glazyl Y. Masculino
BACOLOD City – A shooting incident happened Wednesday amid the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
Sonny Flores Jr., 35, of Arao relocation site in Barangay Vista Alegre was sitting on a parked tricycle past 12 p.m. yesterday when an unidentified assailant shot him from behind at Abada Escay in the said village.
Police Lieutenant Florentino Abalayan, head of Police Station 7, said the Flores was a drug surrenderer, who was also an alleged police asset. He succumbed to three gunshot wounds.
Police recovered from the scene two empty shells and a slug of either .9mm-caliber or .45-caliber ammunition. The gunman fled on foot.
Abalayan said that nobody witnessed the incident because the city is implementing ECQ, which prohibits people from leaving their houses.
He added that they are eyeing grudge and illegal drugs as possible angles in the killing, adding that the victim was included in the drugs watchlist of the Bacolod Anti-Drug Abuse Council (Badac).
Flores surrendered last year and reportedly became an informant of a police station here, Abalayan added.
