Barangay captain shot dead by motorcycle-riding assassins in Cagayan

A barangay chairman was killed was killed after he was shot by two unidentified men on a motorcycle in Rizal, Cagayan.

The Cagayan Police Provincial Office identified the victim as Roberto de Ocampo, 50, of Anurturo.

Investigation showed that Ocampo and his wife were in their pickup truck traversing the provincial road in Barangay Gumarueng in Piat town on Wednesday when the suspects shots them.

The victim sustained gunshot wounds in different parts of his body and was immediately brought by responding police officers to the Tuao District Hospital but was declared dead on arrival.

His wife survived the shooting incident.

The police said the suspects immediately fled the scene on a silver-grey Nmax motorcycle.        

Recovered from the scene were six cartridge cases from a Caliber .45 pistol.

Investigation into the case ongoing, police said. —Mel Matthew Doctor/NB, GMA News