BUTUAN CITY – A special land investigator of the Bislig City Community Environment and Natural Resources Office of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources was shot dead in Bislig City Thursday.
A flash report reaching the Police Regional Office 13 headquarters in Camp Col. Rafael C. Rodriguez here identified the victim as Joash “Jog-jog” I. Peregrino, 36.
Initial investigation conducted by the Bislig City police station disclosed that the victim was inside his Gray Honda Fit car, with license plates MFM-248, waiting for his wife, also a DENR-CENRO employee, who was buying some goods from a commercial store on Espiritu St., Barangay Mangagoy, when two men on board a motorcycle arrived at around 6:15 p.m.
One of them drew a gun and shot the victim twice at close range.
The suspects fled towards Barangay Mangagoy proper while the victim was taken to Andres Soriano Memorial Hospital also in Bislig where he was pronounced dead.
Found in the crime scene were two empty shells of caliber .45 pistol and one deformed slug.
The Bislig police are conducting city-wide manhunt against the suspects. Motive of the incident is yet to be determined. (Mike Crismundo)
