Radioman’s ‘killer’ identified

ZAMBOANGA CITY — Police have identified the suspected killer of a radio commentator in Pagadian City and are hunting him down in Western Mindanao.

Superintendent Jose Corpuz, regional police spokesman, said the suspect, a certain Leo Talibong, was positively identified by several witnesses as the one who gunned down radioman Olympio Jalapit Jr., 34, of station dxPR of the Radio Mindanao Network, last Nov. 17.

Jalapit had just come from a school board meeting when he was shot dead with a caliber .45 pistol shortly before noon in San Jose district in Pagadian.

The gunman, witnesses said, was riding with another man on a motorcycle.

Corpuz said the suspect was earlier arrested for an estafa case but was released after he posted bail.

A police team was formed to track him down. — Roel Pareño