Dave Galangue, who was also on his motorbike, was on his way to a laundry shop near Upper Bicutan Elementary School聽around 12:35 p.m.聽on Martizano Street when聽he was killed, police said.
The shooting was immediately reported to the nearby barangay聽hall by students who had just come from the school.
According to a barangay employee, footage from a closed circuit television camera installed by a resident in the area showed how the victim was tailed by the two assailants. When Galangue noticed he was being followed, he stopped and made a U-turn. The video showed them apparently having a brief exchange.
Galangue was about to run away when shot four times in the chest.
In an interview on Friday afternoon, Galangue鈥檚 mother Josefina Junsay, who was still waiting for her son鈥檚 body from the funeral parlor, could not believe how she lost Dave. 鈥淭his morning, before I went to Laguna, I made him coffee. We also took selfies,鈥� Junsay said.
鈥淗e was not the type who would talk about his problems, but he didn鈥檛 have enemies. And definitely he was not into drugs,鈥� she said, noting that investigators didn鈥檛 find any drug in her son鈥檚 pocket or in his motorbike鈥檚 compartment.
Junsay said Galangue鈥檚 twin brother died seven years ago after being he hit by a stray bullet during a riot near their Taguig residence, while his sister died just last month due to natural causes.
The Taguig police are still verifying allegations made by the victim鈥檚 neighbors that the teenager was involved in drugs and robberies..
The victim鈥檚 girlfriend, also aged 17, said she was also not aware of anyone who would want to harm Galangue . 鈥淗e had dreams of buying his own car and going to the US after finishing his studies, so both of us can live there. It was his dream,鈥� she said.
Galangue dropped out of school in the eighth grade due to financial problems and started helping his mother, a balut vendor.
鈥淏ut what he really wanted was to be a policemen. He admired them. Astig daw (because they look tough),鈥� she said.
Also in Taguig on Thursday, another resident was gunned down by assailants on a motorbike in Barangay South Signal.
Raymond Pagatpat, 25, was walking on Tanyag Street around 10 p.m. when shot and killed on the spot.
A report sent to the media by the Southern Police District quoted barangay officials as saying that Pagatpat was involved in robbery-holdup incidents and was a known drug pusher operating in nearby
barangays.