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BY KEVIN GALANG<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n MOTORCYCLE-RIDING armed men on Monday killed in a gun attack an incumbent barangay chairman \u00a0of Talavera in Nueva Ecija.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Slain was Bgy. Calipahan chairman Joel Damacio, 49.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Damacio died on the spot from gunshot wounds in the head and body.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In a report to Police Regional Office 3 (PRO3) director Brig. Gen. Jean Fajardo, the Nueva Ecija police said a barangay tanod named \u201cBay\u201d was injured after being hit by stray bullets in the arms and legs.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The shooting occurred on Maharlika Highway in Talavera municipality at 8:40 a.m. Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Damacio just came from the Calipahan Elementary School for the opening of the Brigada Eskwela and was returning home when the shooting occurred.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The village chief was driving his motorcycle when upon reaching Purok 5, he saw his barangay tanod driving in the opposite direction.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Damacio made a u-turn to approach the tanod when the motorcycle-riding armed men suddenly shot him repeatedly before fleeing.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Scene of the Crime Office (SOCO) personnel found at the crime scene spent bullets from a cal. .9mm pistol.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A flash alarm was immediately launched for the arrest of the gunmen.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BY KEVIN GALANG MOTORCYCLE-RIDING armed men on Monday killed in a gun attack an incumbent barangay chairman of Talavera in Nueva Ecija. Slain was Bgy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14383,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14381\/revisions\/14383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}