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BY KEVIN GALANG<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A CANTEEN owner on Saturday was shot dead by motorcycle-riding armed men in front of his wife in Bgy. Las Pi\u00f1as, Pe\u00f1aranda, Nueva Ecija.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In a report to Police Regional Office 3 (PRO3) director Brig. Gen. Ponce Rogelio <\/strong>Pe\u00f1ones<\/strong><\/em> <\/strong><\/em>Jr., the Nueva Ecija police identified the victim as Neil Patrick dela Cruz, 52, a resident of Purok 7, Bgy. Las Pi\u00f1as, Pe\u00f1aranda.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Prior to the kllling, the victim and his wife were eating outside their canteen when two men on a motorcycle wearing black jacket, helmet and facemask stopped in front of them.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The suspects pulled out a gun and fired shots at the victim before fleeing.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Patrolling police officers responded to the incident and found the bloodied victim on the pavement.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Police rushed the victim to the nearest hospital, where he was declared dead on arrival.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Authorities are reviewing the CCTV in the area for possible identification and arrest of the suspects.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BY KEVIN GALANG A CANTEEN owner on Saturday was shot dead by motorcycle-riding armed men in front of his wife in Bgy. Las Piñas, Peñaranda,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/shot-in-front-of-wife.webp",826,465,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/shot-in-front-of-wife-150x150.webp",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/shot-in-front-of-wife-300x169.webp",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/shot-in-front-of-wife-768x432.webp",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/shot-in-front-of-wife.webp",640,360,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/shot-in-front-of-wife.webp",826,465,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/shot-in-front-of-wife.webp",826,465,false],"kreeti-slider-full":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/shot-in-front-of-wife.webp",826,465,false],"kreeti-featured":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/shot-in-front-of-wife.webp",826,465,false],"kreeti-medium":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/shot-in-front-of-wife-720x465.webp",720,465,true],"kreeti-medium-square":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/shot-in-front-of-wife-350x350.webp",350,350,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"Provincial<\/a>","tag_info":"Provincial","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15617,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15615\/revisions\/15617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}