Murder charges have been filed Friday against three suspects in the April 30 shooting in barangay Daro that led to the death of Dumaguete broadcaster Edmund Sestoso.
Charged before the Dumaguete City Prosecutor’s Office were a certain Rene Bustamante alias Ka Pediong and his two nephews alias Ka Mocong and alias Ka Sherwin, the alleged riding in tandem suspects who shot dead broadcaster Edmund Sestoso.
The suspects are still at large.
Lourdes Sestoso, the wife of the late broadcaster, filed the complaint after two witnesses came forward to identify the suspects based on the facial composite sketches made by the police.
Prior to his relief as Provincial Police Director, Sr. Supt. Edwin Portento said they would not be filing charges just for the sake of declaring the case solved. “We want to file an airtight case,” he said.
Sestoso, 50, former chair of the National Union of Journalists in the Philippines-Dumaguete Chapter, was shot right after his morning public affairs program over radio DYGB-FM.
Sestoso was disembarking from a tricycle when the gunman appeared from behind the driver and shot him several times, hitting him in his chest and other parts of the body.
The suspect fled on black motorcycle together with a male driver.
Sestoso was rushed to the Silliman University Medical Center Foundation, Inc. where he was listed in critical condition. He was declared dead by doctors shortly past 3 p.m. one day later.
President Rodrigo Duterte had directed the Presidential Task Force on Media Security to get to the bottom of the case and to bring the killers to the bar of justice. (Alex Rey Pal)
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