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+ December 19, 2020 LOCAL police in Danao City now have four suspects considered “persons of interest” in the ambush-slay of lawyer Baby Maria Concepcion Landero-Ole.
Maj. Ma. Theresa Macatangay, Danao City police chief, said aside from the gunman and the driver of the getaway vehicle, two other people on board a white van accompanied the two suspects and served as “spotters.”
Macatangay said witnesses at the crime scene saw the white van speeding off after the two assailants gunned down Ole.
Ole was on her way to Liloan town after attending a hearing when she was gunned down in Barangay Looc, Danao City on Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020.
Published December 18, 2020, 3:17 PM
CEBU CITY A lady lawyer was shot dead while driving her car in a highway in Danao City, northern Cebu last Thursday afternoon.
Danao Police Director Maj. Maria Theresa Macatangay said Baby Maria Concepcion Ole was driving a white pick-up truck in Barangay Tabok when she was shot by two motorcycle-riding assailants.
“The victim and the assailants were traveling in the same direction. It appeared the assailants had been tailing her,” said Macatangay.
Police investigation showed that the victim was the wife of ex-convict Juanito Ole, who was killed last May 26 in Barangay Poblacion, Danao.
Juanito had just been released from the National Bilibid Prison (NBP) when he was killed while buying a banana cue.
Senator Imee R. Marcos
(Senate of the Philippines / MANILA BULLETIN)
Marcos filed Senate Resolution No. 593 as she raised concern over the successive crimes committed against members of the legal community in recent months, “thereby instilling fear…and undermining the effective administration of justice in the country.”
In calling for a Senate probe, she cited the deaths of former Batangas Rep. and lawyer Edgar Mendoza who was burned along with his driver and bodyguard inside his car in Tiaong, Quezon last January; of Manila Regional Trial Court Judge Maria Teresa Abadilla, who was shot by her clerk of court in her office at the Manila City Hall last Nov. 11; of Atty. Eric Jay Magcamit, who was killed in broad daylight in Palawan last Nov. 17 by suspects including a police officer; and of Atty. Joey Luis Wee who was gunned down by unidentified men in Cebu City last Nov. 23.