Murder charges were filed against a member of the Civilian Armed Auxiliary of the Philippine Army in Negros Oriental for the killing of a barangay captain in Guihulngan City last week.

Guihulngan police chief, Sr. Insp. Alvin Futalan, said Cirilo Tejares, 29, married, was subjected to inquest proceedings Thursday after he voluntarily surrendered to his detachment commander, for the shooting Norberto Recabo, 50, married, barangay captain of Binobohan, Guihulngan.

Tejares told the police that he shot Recabo with a .357 caliber revolver on Feb. 18, after learning that his order for him to kill somebody in their barangay was serious.

Recabo allegedly threatened Tejares that he may lose his job or even get killed, if he did not obey the order.

Provincial police director, Sr. Supt. Edward Carranza, announced Friday that the police consider the case closed with the surrender of Tejares.

Carranza said the identity of the person that the late barangay captain had ordered Tejares to kill was never known.

Recada shot the barangay captain point blank inside a chapel in Binobohan, as he was talking with barangay tanods Guilly Escoba and Gaudencio Bayato, after which he fled, buried the murder weapon somewhere, and returned to his detachment.

Carranza said that, based on police investigation, the motive for the killing was purely personal and had nothing to do with earlier reports of unfair distribution of relief goods, or a political angle, considering that the suspect’s father was a barangay councilman of Binobohan.*JFP

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