Masked men gun down Pangasinan lawyer

BALUNGAO, Pangasinan — Four ski-mask wearing men shot dead the chairman of the local People’s Law Enforcement Board and wounded his wife while they were asleep in their farmhouse in Barangay Angayan Sur here last Wednesday night, police said.

Senior Inspector Jeff Fanged, the town’s police chief, told The STAR that lawyer Carlo Magno Uminga, 48, sustained multiple gunshot wounds, while his wife, Rosa Isabel, 55, was hit in the buttocks.

Police found 43 empty 5.56 mm shells and six empty shells from a US Carbine.

Fanged said they have two suspects who were made to undergo paraffin tests at the police crime laboratory in Urdaneta City.

Mrs. Uminga said her husband’s killing might have something to do with the drug-related cases he was handling.

Fanged said the incident was reported to the police after more than 30 minutes since the Umingas have no neighbors and their farmhouse was isolated, about four kilometers away from the highway.

The farm’s caretaker, Liberty Fonacier, told police that she and the Uminga couple were lying on the bamboo floor when they heard gun bursts, prompting them to cover themselves with blankets. — With Cecille Suerte Felipe