Pampanga trader linked to slays of NBI agent, wife

SAN FERNANDO CITY, Pampanga – Police are hunting down a businessman whom witnesses implicated in the fatal shooting of a National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) confidential agent and his wife at a subdivision here Wednesday night.

Superintendent Sonny Cunanan, city police chief, said investigators have tagged a certain Milo Paras, who reportedly sells power consumption-reducing devices, as the one who allegedly pumped seven bullets into the bodies of NBI agent Ricardo Martin and his wife Maricris in front of their house along Talisay street in Pilar Subdivision at about 7:15 p.m. last Wednesday.

Cunanan said Paras, whom police could not locate as of yesterday, would be charged with double murder.

Witnesses claimed Paras visited the Martins’ house several times on Wednesday. Later that day, Ricardo arrived to fetch his wife for a meeting with members of the Pampanga Shooters Club, of which he was president, at the Jessa restaurant here.

Paras was allegedly seen talking with Ricardo and Maricris, who held their one-year-old son in her right arm, in front of the latter’s gate before shots rang out. Ricardo was shot first, while Maricris was gunned down while attempting to run away. The child was unhurt.

Cunanan said the suspect’s identity was established based on a cartographic sketch drawn from witnesses’ description.

The Martins reportedly knew Paras whom their maid only knew as Abel.

Cunanan said the killing seemed premeditated and could have been linked to business dealings. – Ding Cervantes