{"id":19887,"date":"2026-05-01T04:24:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T20:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=19887"},"modified":"2026-05-01T04:24:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T20:24:17","slug":"assassins-take-advantage-of-power-outage-in-killing-target-in-nueva-ecija","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/assassins-take-advantage-of-power-outage-in-killing-target-in-nueva-ecija\/","title":{"rendered":"ASSASSINS TAKE ADVANTAGE OF POWER OUTAGE IN KILLING TARGET IN NUEVA ECIJA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY KEVIN GALANG<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>TALAVERA, Nueva Ecija \u2014 Unidentified suspects on Monday shot dead a man during a power outage on Maharlika Highway in Bgy. San Miguel na Munti, this town.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a report to Police Regional Office 3 (PRO3) director Brig. Gen. Jess Mendez by the Talavera Police Station, the victim was aboard a tricycle traveling northbound toward the town proper when he briefly alighted at the roadside.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The suspects in a black Toyota Innova, who were tailing the victim, stopped nearby.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>One of the suspects, seated on the passenger side of the vehicle, approached the victim, which led to a confrontation.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>During the altercation, the suspect drew a firearm and shot the victim multiple times, killing him on the spot.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Authorities said one of the suspects then boarded the victim\u2019s tricycle and fled northbound, while the getaway vehicle proceeded southbound toward Cabanatuan City.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Police immediately launched an investigation and conducted interviews with possible witnesses to gather more information about the assailants and the motive for the killing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Law enforcement units have also requested the implementation of \u201cOplan Bakod,\u201d a security measure that involves setting up checkpoints to seal off possible escape routes.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY KEVIN GALANG &nbsp; TALAVERA, Nueva Ecija &mdash; Unidentified suspects on Monday shot dead a man during a power outage on Maharlika Highway in Bgy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19888,"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\/19887"}],"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=19887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19889,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19887\/revisions\/19889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}