It was drug-related.

This was the initial findings of the police on the killing of Jimmy Snook, an alleged drug personality in Moises Padilla, and his companion, who was identified yesterday as Jay Russel Flores.

Snook and Flores were found dead inside a gray Chevrolet vehicle in Brgy. Rizal, San Carlos City, Negros Occidental, Saturday, with gunshot wounds on their heads.

Supt. Victorino Romanillos, San Carlos City police chief, yesterday said that they have already identified the suspect in the twin killings, and they will file charges against him within the week.

Policemen recovered four empty shells and three slugs of a .45 caliber pistol, and a plastic sachet containing suspected shabu, inside the vehicle.

The San Carlos police investigation showed that the gunman was suspected to be the companion of the victims, and who was seated at the back of the vehicle.

The identification of Flores, 39, was positively confirmed yesterday by his aunt, Evangeline Hintula, through DYWB Bombo Radyo. His identity was a mystery for the police for two days.

Hintula said that her nephew, a registered nurse, had undergone drug rehabilitation after being charged for a drug-related offense.

Meanwhile, the murder of Robert Calapan and his cousin, Joseph Antonio de la Cruz, who were waylaid and shot by about three to four suspects, while on their way home Saturday in Hacienda Paz, Brgy. Canlandog, Murcia, remained a mystery to the police, as of yesterday.

This is because Murcia police probers are still trying to establish the identities of the suspects, although they are looking into personal grudges as motive for the killings.

The bodies of de la Cruz and Calapan, who was charged in court for the murder of a landowner in Murcia November last year, were found in a sugarcane field the next day.

Senior Supt. Samuel Nacion, officer-in-charge of the Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office, ordered Monday the 31 police chiefs in the province to further improve their security and checkpoint operations, in the wake of the seven killings during the weekend.*GPB

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