Retired police chief shot in Bataan

BALANGA CITY – A newly retired former police intelligence officer was critically wounded when two-motorcycle riding men fired at him while cleaning his garage in Reyes Subdivision, Barangay Reformista, Limay, this province, yesterday morning.

Senior inspector Joel Tam­pis, Limay police chief, identified the retired police superintendent as Bonifacio Cacho, 56, married, and owner of Bambi’s Restaurant along Roman Superhighway in Limay town.

Tampis said Cacho was inside his garage at about 10 a.m. when the two still unidentified armed men riding in tandem shot the former police officer. The suspects used .45 caliber automatic pistols, fired at Cacho while running toward his house to get his issued firearm.

Cacho suffered five gunshot wounds, three at the back, one each in the jaw and right abdomen and was brought to Isaac Catalina Medical Center in this City by his neighbors and relatives for treatment of gunshot wounds. Medical officers are still closely observing the condition of the former police officer.

– Raffy Viray, Ric Sapnu