Just a fall guy?
National Bureau of Investigation-Bacolod agent-in-charge Ferdinand Lavin yesterday said that they are now looking into the possibility that Pic Raymond Longno had nothing to do with the killing of hotelier Johnny Chua.
Lavin said that an informant told them that Longno’s death had something to do with his links to illegal gambling and that he was not assassinated by the “brains” behind the Chua killing.
He also said that Longno’s assailants could be law enforcers or his peers.
As to Chua’s killing, Lavin said they are also looking into the possibility that it was related to his lending business and that those who planned it could be close to his family.
Earlier, Lavin lamented that they are having difficulties in solving the two murders as the witnesses are afraid to come out.
Chua, 63, of Capitolville Subdivision, Bacolod City, and owner of the Eastwest Hotel was on his way home from the Bacolod downtown area, when he was shot, allegedly by suspected gun-for-hire Pic Raymond Longno, 37, of Malaspina Street, Brgy. Villamonte, Bacolod, at the junction of JV and Burgos streets at about 6 p.m. on October 20.
Longno, however, was also shot by two bonnet-wearing men the following day while he was walking at Malaspina Street. He died at the Bacolod Doctor’s Hospital.
De la Paz said whoever ordered the killing of Chua may also be involved in the assassination of Longno that was probably intended to silence him.
Longno’s family sought the help of the NBI to investigate his death and at the same time denied that he was involved in the killing of Chua, whose family has offered a reward for the resolution of his murder.*APN back
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