January 08, 2021 A RETIRED police official who figured in President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug list was gunned down by two unidentified men onboard a motorcycle in Barangay Luz, Cebu City on Friday morning, Jan. 8, 2021.
Retired Police Lt. Col. Renato Malazarte, 54, died just 30 minutes after he was rushed to a nearby hospital by emergency responders.
Witnesses told police that at around 10 a.m. Friday, Malazarte was carrying butane canisters from his house in Sitio Cabantan, Barrio Luz, to his car when two men aboard a black motorcycle approached him and gunned him down with a .45 caliber pistol.
To ensure that they finished the job, one of the two assailants stepped off the vehicle and fired at Malazarte, close range, while the former cop lay bleeding on the ground.