RIDING-IN-TANDEM assassins on Monday night shot dead an incumbent village chief and his son in Bgy. Lapting, San Juan, Ilocos Sur.
Slain were Bello Joseph Padua Valorozo, 52, and his son, Jomar, 24, both residents of Bgy. Caronoan, San Juan town.
According to the San Juan Municipal Police Station, around 7:10 p.m. on Monday, the victims were in a Mitsubishi MV 100 van on their way home from a cockpit arena when they were shot by the still unidentified gunmen.
The barangay chairman was rushed to the Suero General Hospital in Cabugao, where he was declared dead on arrival.
His son was rushed to the Pira Hospital in Cabugao but was transferred to Northside Doctors Hospital in Bantay, Ilocos Sur, but died while undergoing treatment from multiple gunshot wounds.
Police are hunting down the suspects.

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