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Judge shot dead in Zamboanga City

/ 10:08 AM February 28, 2014

MANILA, Philippines— A motorcycle-riding gunman shot dead a Regional Trial Court judge in Zamboanga City early Friday.

Presiding Judge Reynerio Estacio of Zamboanga City RTC Branch 14 was gunned down at 7:40 a.m. on Narra Drive, Barangay Tugbungan in Zamboanga City, said Zamboanga Peninsula police spokesman

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Chief Inspector Ariel Huesca.

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The gunman was on board a Honda XRM motorcycle without license plate.

Senior Superintendent Wilben Mayor, Philippine National Police spokesperson, said the assailants fired shots at Estacio in the back, only a few meters away from his house in the said village.

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The judge was brought to Zamboanga Doctors’ Hospital but was declared dead on arrival, Mayor said.

Police were investigating the case. With Julie Alipala, Inquirer Mindanao Bureau

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