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BY KEVIN GALANG<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n DINALUPIHAN, Bataan \u2014 Car-riding assassins on Tuesday shot dead a 29-year-old man and wounded his partner in Bgy. San Simon, this town.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A report to Police Regional Office 3 (PRO3) director Brig. Gen. Ponce Rogelio Pe\u00f1ones Jr. by the Bataan police identified the fatality as John Christopher dela Cruz, 29, of Purok Pag-asa, Bgy. Pagalanggang, while the wounded was Winchelle Chan Gonzales, 27.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The shooting occurred at Purok 4 in Bgy. San Simon.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Initial investigation showed that authorities received a phone call reporting a shooting incident.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Responding lawmen found the victims bloodied on the road and with gunshot wounds.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dela Cruz was declared dead on the spot while Gonzales was rushed to the JC Payumo District Hospital for treatment.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Witnesses told probers that the gunmen, who fled on a green Honda Fit car after the attack, were wearing bonnets, black long sleeves, and red T-shirts.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n An investigation is ongoing into the motive for the shooting.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Authorities are conducting pursuit and dragnet operations for the suspects\u2019 arrest.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BY KEVIN GALANG DINALUPIHAN, Bataan — Car-riding assassins on Tuesday shot dead a 29-year-old man and wounded his partner in Bgy. San Simon, this town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16429,"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\/09\/crime-scene-guns.jpg",600,168,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/crime-scene-guns-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/crime-scene-guns-300x84.jpg",300,84,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/crime-scene-guns.jpg",600,168,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/crime-scene-guns.jpg",600,168,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/crime-scene-guns.jpg",600,168,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/crime-scene-guns.jpg",600,168,false],"kreeti-slider-full":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/crime-scene-guns.jpg",600,168,false],"kreeti-featured":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/crime-scene-guns.jpg",600,168,false],"kreeti-medium":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/crime-scene-guns.jpg",600,168,false],"kreeti-medium-square":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/crime-scene-guns-350x168.jpg",350,168,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\/16428"}],"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=16428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16430,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16428\/revisions\/16430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}