{"id":109709,"date":"2011-12-12T12:08:46","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T04:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/?p=109709"},"modified":"2011-12-12T12:08:46","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T04:08:46","slug":"wounded-partylist-lawmaker-received-death-threat-says-police-prober","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/109709\/wounded-partylist-lawmaker-received-death-threat-says-police-prober","title":{"rendered":"Wounded partylist lawmaker received death threat, says police prober"},"content":{"rendered":"
MANILA, Philippines — The party-list lawmaker who was shot and wounded Sunday afternoon had once received a death threat sometime in October this year, investigators said Monday.<\/p>\n
\u201cCongressman, mag-ingat ka. Tutuluyan ka namin [Congressman, take care. We will kill you],\u201d the bodyguard of Kakusa Partylist Representative Ranulfo Canonigo told the police, quoting the unknown text sender.<\/p>\n
Canonigo was shot at least thrice by two men aboard a motorcycle on Sunday past 5 p.m. just when he was about to alight from his Suzuki APV van and enter his home in Fairlane Subdivision in Barangay Concepcion Uno, Marikina City.<\/p>\n
Canonigo’s bodyguard told police that the threat sent through a text message was read aloud to them by their boss sometime in October. The aides were not aware who would want the lawmaker killed.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut according to them, [Canonigo] ignored it thinking it might not be serious,\u201d said Police Officer 3 Efren Antor, one of the investigators of the Marikina police handling the case.<\/p>\n
Canonigo is a representative of Kakusa (Kapatiran Ng Mga Nakulong Na Walang Sala) Party-list, a group representing prisoners and detainees who claim to have been wrongfully accused of crimes. A native of Zamboanga City, he has been renting a house in Marikina while he fulfills his duty as a member of the Congress.<\/p>\n
Antor said they have not spoken to the lawmaker who has been set to undergo an operation for his wounds at the St. Luke\u2019s Medical Center in Global City, Taguig.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The party-list lawmaker who was shot and wounded Sunday afternoon had once received a death threat sometime in October this year, investigators said Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,47],"tags":[206083,89,41955],"byline":[346],"source":[206078],"column":[],"editor":[],"videographer":[],"position":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n