NPD forms Task Force Seachon

Northern Police District director Senior Superintendent Raul Gonzales created yesterday a special task force made up of various police support groups that will investigate last Sunday’s slaying of a former Masbate Rep. Fausto Seachon Jr. in Caloocan City.

"The task force is dedicated solely for the investigation of the former congressman’s murder," Gonzales told The STAR.

Task Force Seachon, he said, is composed of select investigators from the NPD intelligence units, the Caloocan City police and the Northern-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (Northern-CIDG).

As this developed, the NPD came out yesterday with cartographic sketches of two of the three suspects who gunned down Seachon near his house at GSIS Hills Subdivision, Barangay 164, Caloocan at around 11 p.m.

Police described the two gunmen as between 32 to 40 years old, 5’6" to 5’7" in height. One has short black hair, while the other has curly black hair.

"We are hoping to get them soon," Gonzales said, claiming that several witnesses surfaced to identify the gunmen.

Seachon was playing mahjong near his house when two men, armed with caliber .45 and 9mm handguns, approached from opposite directions and shot him.

Two of the former congressman’s mahjong mates, Alex Legaspi, 56 and Emma Alonzo, 55, also residents of GSIS Hills Subdivision, were critically wounded and are now confined at the FEU Hospital in Fairview, Quezon City.

Seachon died while being treated at the Casaul General Hospital in Tandang Sora, Quezon City an hour after he was shot.

The suspects escaped on a black Kawasaki motorcycle without license plates. It was driven by a third suspect who was waiting for the gunmen on Road 9.

Gonzales said that they are looking into politics as the most probable motive behind Seachon’s killing.

"According to the victim’s family, he is well-loved in their neighborhood and has no personal enemy," Gonzales said.

Gonzales said that during the last elections in Masbate, where the victim ran but lost as a gubernatorial candidate, there was also an attempt on his life, but he survived.

"He promised his constituents he would come back with a victory in the next gubernatorial race," Gonzales said.

Seachon served as Masbate’s third district representative from 1995 to 2004.