MANILA: Three people passed away in a shooting in a university graduating ceremony in the Philippines’ capital region upon Sunday (Jul 24), including a former mayor from the volatile southern of the country, the police said.
Local Quezon Town police chief Remus Medina said the shooting appeared to have been a targeted murder of the former mayor of the southern Lamitan city, Rose Furigay.
The suspect, wounded in a shootout with a campus protection officer and caught after a car chase, is now in guardianship and being interrogated, Medina told reporters.
“He appears to be he was a determined assassin, ” Medina said, incorporating he was discovered with two pistols.
Quezon can be part of the Manila capital region, a good urban sprawl associated with 16 cities home to more than 13 million people.
Furigay was photo as she was about to attend the graduating of her girl at the law college of Ateneo de Manila University, one of the country’s most prestigious, Medina said.
The two others wiped out were a campus security officer and Furigay’s executive assistant, the police said.
Furigay’s daughter, who had been supposed to attend the graduation ceremony, had been wounded and delivered to a hospital, the police said.
Ateneo cancelled the graduation ceremony after the shooting.