{"id":7340,"date":"2024-07-24T00:21:50","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T16:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=7340"},"modified":"2024-07-24T00:21:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T16:21:51","slug":"assassins-kill-bulacan-barangay-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2024\/07\/24\/assassins-kill-bulacan-barangay-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"ASSASSINS KILL BULACAN BARANGAY SECRETARY"},"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 VILLAGE secretary on Monday was shot dead by motorcycle-riding gunmen in Baliwag, Bulacan.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Killed was Boy Silvestre, a 54-year-old barangay secretary residing in Sta&nbsp; Lucia St., Bgy. Pinagbarilan, Baliwag City.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>A report submitted to Police Regional Office 3 director Brig. Gen. Jose Hidalgo Jr. by the Bulacan police stated that barangay tanod Herman Hermosa, 48, informed the police about the killing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>According to Hermosa, two unidentified men on a plateless motorcycle pulled over in front of the victim who was then washing his motorcycle.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hermosa said he heard two gun shots and saw Silvestre bloodied and lying on the ground.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>He also saw two men on a red motorcycle, with the backrider holding a gun.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The tanod attempted to throw a stone to the suspects but the backrider pointed the gun at him, prompting him to drop the stone.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The suspects fled towards Pagala, Baliwag City.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Silvestre was rushed to the ACE Hospital on DRT Highway, Bgy Pinagbarilan, where he was declared dead on arrival.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Police are conducting a follow-up operation to arrest the suspects.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY KEVIN GALANG A VILLAGE secretary on Monday was shot dead by motorcycle-riding gunmen in Baliwag, Bulacan.&nbsp; Killed was Boy Silvestre, a 54-year-old barangay secretary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7341,"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\/7340"}],"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=7340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7342,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7340\/revisions\/7342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}