BAMBANG, Nueva Vizcaya: A police officer was shot dead by motorcycle-riding suspects on Saturday, August 13, 2022, a police report said.
In a police short message service report from this town’s police station, the victim was identified as Police Senior Master Sergeant Aldwin Aspacio James, 43, the field training officer of the said police station.
James is a resident of Govt Center Subdivision in Baguio City.
Initial investigation conducted revealed that the shooting incident happened at 7:59 a.m. when James just arrived at his boarding house at Manalansan St. in Barangay Homestead in this town.
The police report also added that witnesses saw the suspects onboard a matt gray-colored Yamaha NMAX with no plate registry who shot the victim six times.
The report added that the witnesses saw the suspects who immediately fled in a direction going to the under-construction Bambang bypass road.
The victim was immediately brought to the Nueva Vizcaya Provincial Hospital in this town but the attending physician declared the victim dead on arrival.
Personnel of the Scene of the Crime Operatives are still conducting scientific collection, handling, preservation and processing of evidence in the crime scene, according to Staff Sergeant Bondy Martinez, the investigating officer on the case. LEANDER C. DOMINGO