A Dumaguete City lawyer is in serious condition after he was shot by still unidentified gunmen just outside his home around 8:30 a.m. Friday at Ma. Asuncion Village in barangay Daro.
Atty. Ray J. Moncada, 74, went to the gate of his residence to check on some “visitors” who rang the buzzer.
But one of the two men, dressed in a black jacket and wearing a black helmet, was brandishing a gun. When Moncada saw the gun, he ran back to his house as the gunman shot at him.
Police said his daughter went out of the house after hearing the gun explosions, and found her bloodied father lying on the ground. The suspects fled westward along E.J. Blanco Road.
Scene of the Crime Operatives recovered five spent shells of cal. 45 bullets, and one deformed slug from the scene of the crime.
He was immediately brought to a local hospital where doctors who successfully operated on him Friday said he remains in stable condition.
Police are investigating the motive of the shooter by digging into the cases he is handling.
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Dumaguete City Mayor Felipe Antonio Remollo immediately ordered the safeguarding of the City’s CCTV footages to see if the suspects could be identified.
Mayor Remollo said he is hopeful that the CCTV footages on Friday’s shooting of lawyer Moncada will help authorities in solving the crime.
Remollo shared with the MetroPost Saturday morning the video that captured the entire incident, which was recorded from the CCTV camera located just across Moncada’s home at Ma. Asuncion Subd.
The video footage shows the suspects waiting for anyone to come to the gate. Moncada is then shown talking face to face with the suspects who were wearing full-faced helmets and jackets. Then Moncada runs back to the house after seeing the gunman pull out a gun.
Moncada was fired upon several times. He was hit in the stomach, and a bullet also grazed his shoulder.
Mayor Remollo said the CCTV operators will work backwards to try to identify the gunmen, and where they came from. “We want to identify the mastermind,” he said.
There are 326 CCTV cameras throughout the City. “We need to upgrade the cameras in the inner barangays,” the Mayor said.
In May 2013, Moncada’s house was also hit by an explosion of an Improvised Explosive Device, although nobody was injured at that time.
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