Cops hunt down publisher’s killer

Police are hot on the trail of the killer of a publisher of a community newspaper and cable television broadcaster who was ambushed in San Pablo City, Laguna last Thursday.

Senior Superintendent Medardo Apacible, officer-in-charge of the Southern Tagalog police, described the assailant of Sonny Alcantara as about 40 years old, medium-built, about five feet, five inches tall, sports a short, semi-curly hair and has a scar on the left forehead.

Probers, Apacible said, are still looking into all possible angles behind the ambush-slaying of Alcantara, publisher of Kokus and news anchor of Celestron Cable TV.

Alcantara was waylaid as he was coming out of his residence at Quirino City Subdivision Thursday morning.

Apacible said the gunman was seen eating at a nearby carinderia prior to the killing.

The ambush came barely two days after a district examiner of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) was gunned down also in San Pablo City. — Jaime Laude, Ed Amoroso