MANILA (Mindanao Examiner / Aug. 28, 2014) – Police have arrested a man tagged as behind the shooting of a radio man in Dagupan City just outside Manila.
Police said Rolando Lim Jr. was arrested in connection to the August 26 shooting of Orly Navarro near his house in the village of Pantal.
Navarro is the acting manager of radio station dwIZ and is a known hard-hitting commentator who hosts a news and commentary program “Orly sa IZ.”
Police said Lim was arrested after witnesses pointed to him as the alleged shooter. Police said it filed criminal charges against Lim, who is also allegedly into illegal drugs which was probably the motive for the attack.
Navarro was hit in the shoulder with a bullet while talking to a tricycle driver. “Navarro was on his way home at around one o’clock in the morning and was about 15 meters away from his house in Barangay Pantal, Dagupan City, when he heard a gunshot. He then felt his left shoulder numb and heavy.”
“He told the tricycle driver, to whom he was talking, to bring him to the nearest hospital. He is being observed before he will undergo an operation to remove the bullet lodged in his shoulder,” the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines said following the shooting.
Chief Superintendent Roman Felix, the regional police chief, commended Superintendent Christopher Abrahano, the police chief of Dagupan City, for the immediate arrest of Lim. Felix also ordered Abrahano to further investigate Lim.
“The creation of the Special Investigation Task Group to dedicate speedy and accurate investigation to identify the mastermind and motive of the frustrated killing was a great help in the arrest of the suspect as well as the statements of the victim and two witnesses,” Abrahano said.
There was no immediate statement from the NUJP on the arrest of Lim. (Mindanao Examiner)
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