BACOLOD CITY – A close-in security of Guihulngan City vice mayor in Negros Oriental was killed by unidentified motorcycle-riding assailants on Bateria bridge in Barangay Poblacion on Thursday.
Slain was Belarmino Isolana, 56, a security aide of Vice Mayor Ernesto Reyes, according to police.
The Negros Oriental Police Provincial Office (Norppo) reported that Isolana was a drug surrenderer who yielded to the authorities on November 17, 2016.
Isolana was walking a few meters away from his house on Thursday night when the assailants shot him several times and fled.
He was hit in the head and body. He was brought to Guihulngan District Hospital, where he was declared dead.
Police recovered from the scene four spent shells of .45-caliber gun.
Investigation is ongoing, police said. (Glazyl Masculino)