Businesswoman killed in Las Piñas

A 57-year-old Filipino-Chinese businesswoman was shot dead by two motorcycle-riding men in Las Piñas City yesterday.

Police identified the victim as Qui Ming Suan, a resident of Hyacinth street at the Las Piñas Royal Estate.

Police Officer 3 Eleazar Camiling, case investigator, said Qui was with her husband on a brown Kia Picanto sedan (ZBS-343) when the incident took place on Naga Road in Pulang Lupa Village at around 7:30 a.m.

The husband was driving while Qui was seated at the back.

The husband heard a sound but ignored it. He discovered that his wife was shot only after they arrived at their house at the Las Piñas Royal Estate.

Police said one of the motorcycle-riding suspects fired from behind the car, using a gun with a silencer. Qui suffered a single gunshot wound in the head.

She was rushed to the Las Piñas Doctor’s Hospital.

Recovered from the scene was an empty shell of a caliber .45 pistol.

Las Piñas police chief Superintendent Josephus Angan said they are interviewing witnesses and conducting follow-up operations to arrest the suspects.

Johhny Midnight shot

Radio broadcaster Johnny Midnight, who became famous for his cure-all "toning" water in the 1980s, was shot and wounded inside his office in Las Piñas City yesterday.

The 65-year-old Midnight, Johnny Xerez Burgos Joseph in real life and a resident of Pacific Village, Alabang, Muntinlupa, was wounded in the hip when a man armed with a caliber .38 revolver barged into his office at the URCI Townhomes on Alabang-Zapote Road at around 10:30 a.m. and shot him.

Las Piñas police chief Superintendent Josephus Angan identified the suspect as Ramilo Rose, a native of General Mariano Alvarez, Cavite.

Angan said Rose first shot Midnight’s driver, Alexander Madrideo, who was waiting at the receiving area of the office.

Madrideo was hit in the hand.

Rose fled the crime scene, but Madrideo immediately ran outside and sought the help of traffic enforcers who were near the area.

This led to the arrest of the suspect, who is now detained at the Las Piñas police station.

Angan said charges of frustrated murder are now being readied against Rose, who claimed that the victim had been using "black magic" on him.

Midnight, who recited chants during his program to "purify" water, has been declared out of danger at the Asian Hospital in Muntinlupa City.