A businessman from Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental, was shot to death by motorcycle-riding suspects at Rizal Street in Barangay 9 Friday night, December 11.
Killed was Leo Biñas, 30, of Villa Concha Subdivision in Barangay Hilamonan.
Based on the police report, the victim was supervising, and at the same time hauling his stocks in front of his boutique when the unidentified riding-in-tandem suspects approached and fired at him several times.
The assailants, on board a black Yamaha sniper motorcycle with an unidentified plate number, escaped after the shooting.
The victim was rushed to the hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival.
Recovered from the crime scene were five fired cartridges of a .45 caliber pistol.
Police have yet to establish the motive of the killing.*