From the Philippine News Agency (Jan 6): Cops probe killing of ex-PSG man in North Cotabato
Police probers are looking into the killing of a former Presidential Security Group (PSG) member who was shot dead Friday by unidentified gunmen in Magpet, North Cotabato.
Chief Insp. Romel Constantino, Magpet town police chief, identified the victim as retired Army Sgt. Ronel Galupo, 42, of RVM Subdivision, Barangay Poblacion, Magpet.
Prior to his retirement some two years ago, the victim was a PSG member detailed under former President Benigno Aquino lll.
Constantino said Galupo was about to enter his home at around 4:30 p.m. when one of two killers approached him from behind and opened fire. The gunman’s cohort on a motorbike waited a few meters away and served as lookout and driver of getaway vehicle.
Responding Magpet policemen recovered empty shells for caliber .45 pistol at the crime scene.
Prior to his death, Galupo, then a member of Army’s 56th Infantry Battalion until retirement, was employed as a security officer of a Davao City-based private firm and went home only recently to Magpet to visit his family and children for the holiday season.
Supt. Bernard Tayong, North Cotabato provincial police spokesperson said a manhunt is underway to get Galupo’s killers.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1020717
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