{"id":14958,"date":"2025-07-05T11:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T03:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=14958"},"modified":"2025-07-05T11:49:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T03:49:37","slug":"2-men-shot-dead-by-drinking-buddies-in-bulacan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2025\/07\/05\/2-men-shot-dead-by-drinking-buddies-in-bulacan\/","title":{"rendered":"2 MEN SHOT DEAD BY DRINKING BUDDIES IN BULACAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>BY KEVIN GALANG<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>A DRINKING spree on Thursday turned bloody after two men on Thursday were shot dead by their drinking buddies in Norzagaray, Bulacan.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a report to Police Regional Office 3 (PRO3) director Brig. Gen. Ponce Rogelio Penones Jr., the Bulacan police identified the victims as Jaymark Ocampo 30, a&nbsp; merchandiser at Budget King; and Melencio Ocampo Jr., 40, a farmer, both residents of Bgy. Pinagtulayan, Norzagaray town.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Police are hunting down the suspects identified only as alias \u201cGardo,\u201d 52, a construction worker, and alias \u201cJohnnie,\u201d 18, both of Bgy. Pinagtulayan also in Norzagaray.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The incident happened when the victims and the suspects were having drinks at the house of one of the suspects.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The victims\u2019 relatives said they heard gun shots and upon checking,&nbsp; they saw Jaymark lying on the ground bloodied. They rushed him to Norzagaray Municipal Hospital, where he was declared dead upon arrival from bullet wounds.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Other relatives also found the body of Melencio, who likewise sustained gunshot wounds.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The shooting incident was reported to the Norzagaray police and together with the Norzagaray Recue Team confirmed that Melencio was already dead.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The victims&#8217; families refused to conduct an autopsy on the duo, saying they were convinced that the suspects, who were their relatives, did shoot Jaymark and Melencio.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Police are conducting a manhunt operation to arrest the suspects.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY KEVIN GALANG A DRINKING spree on Thursday turned bloody after two men on Thursday were shot dead by their drinking buddies in Norzagaray, Bulacan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14961,"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\/14958"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14960,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14958\/revisions\/14960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}