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1. Environmental lawyer shot dead in front of kids in Bohol By: Leo Udtohan -
Correspondent Philippine Daily Inquirer / February 15, 2017

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol An environmental lawyer was shot and killed by still unidentified
gunmen while she was driving her three young children home in the capital city of Tagbilaran,
Bohol, on Wednesday afternoon.

Mia Manuelita Cumba Masacarias-Green, 49, died of bullet wounds in the head and body. Her
children, one aged 9 and her two-year-old twins, were unharmed but they were shocked and
shaken.

Supt. Nicomedes Olaivar, Tagbilaran police chief, said they were still determining, as of
Wednesday night, the motive behind the killing. He said they would check the cases she had
handled to find out if the killing was job-related.

Masacarias-Green was known as an environmental lawyer when she was a member of

the Environmental Legal Assistance Center (ELAC). She had also handled civil and criminal
cases.

Olaivar said the victim was driving her children home to Centro 1, Dampas District, Tagbilaran
past 4 p.m. on Wednesday, when she was shot.

As her Toyota Innova (plate number ABM 9572) reached the corner of H. Zamora and J.A. Clarin
Streets in Dao District at 4:27 p.m., two motorcycles blocked the road and fired at her.
Her children were seated on the passenger seat in the back, but the perpetrators aimed their guns
at Masacarias-Green and hit their target.

Olaivar said witnesses told the police that the assailants motorcycles didnt have plate numbers.
They also left immediately after firing at the victim and headed toward Corella town.
At least 24 empty shells were recovered from the crime scene.

Masacarias-Green was hit in the head and body and was rushed to the Holy Name University
Medical Center where she died.

Olaivar said police investigators had yet to determine the motive behind the attack as manhunt
operation had been launched against the gunmen.

She was really a passionate and devoted lawyer, said lawyer Ted Lagang, president of the
Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP)-Bohol chapter.

Provincial board member Abeleon Damalerio, who rushed to the hospital upon hearing what
happened, said Masacarias-Green was a lawyer devoted to her profession.

She was always prepared for the cases she was handling. Her level of devotion to her cases
could not be questioned, said Damalerio.

Lagang condemned the killing and called on authorities to bring the perpetrators to justice. SFM
 2. Lawyer, pal slain in Manila By Rey Galupo (The Philippine Star) | Updated June 3,
2017

Elmer Mitra Jr., 38; Alvin Cruzin, 43, and a still unidentified companion were cruising in a gray
BMW (XDX-993) at the corner of Perez and Belen streets just before 10 p.m. when shots were
fired inside the vehicle.

The car skidded before hitting the gutter and turning over, witnesses said.

Closed-circuit television footage showed a man crawling out of the car from the backseat, then
running toward Apacible street.

Police officers said the man now considered the main suspect was wearing a blue T-shirt and
cargo pants. He was of medium build and at least 59 tall, they said.

Probers recovered four spent shells from a 9mm pistol, six bullets and a 9mm pistol with serial
number Z04575.

The victims identification cards were found in a brown bag.

Mitra is a son of former Pasay City prosecutor Elmer Mitra.

3. Lawyer of suspected drug lord, teener shot dead in Leyte By: Joey A. Gabieta,
Robert Dejon Inquirer Visayas / August 23, 2016

TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte The lawyer of suspected drug lord Rolando Kerwin Espinosa Jr.
and his 15-year-old companion were killed on Tuesday afternoon when unidentified men fired at
the pick-up they were riding in, in Barangay Lumbang II this city.

Rogelio Bato Jr., 48, and a resident of V & G Subdivision here, and Angelika Bonita of Barangay
75, were heading to the Robinsons Mall at about 2:20 p.m. when they were fired upon by men on
board a white pick-up and a motorcycle.

Police had yet to determine if the ambush was related to the drug cases being handled by the
lawyer, including those involving Kerwin and other suspected drug pushers such as Ricardo
Rondina who was detained and his cousin, Ferdinand Rondina who was out on bail.

Albuera Mayor Rolando Espinosa Sr., father of Kerwin, didnt issue a statement on the death of
his sons lawyer.

But Albuera municipal administrator Daryl Menesis told the Philippine Daily Inquirer that the elder
Espinosa could not talk because the mayor was crying when he heard about the ambush.

We will do everything we can to establish the motive and identify the suspects, said Senior Supt.
Rolando Bade, Tacloban City police director.

He said they didnt know where the victims came from but the two were heading to the mall.

Bato was driving the maroon Toyota pick-up (YHH 461) while the girl, who was wearing her school
uniform, was on the front seat. The girl was a fourth year high school student of the Sagkahan
National High School.
Witnesses told police that the pick-up slowed down because of the road construction in Lumbang
II.

Bato, however, didnt notice that he was being tailed by men on board a white pick-up and
motorcycle.

The perpetrators, who were armed with .45 caliber pistols and M16 rifles, then overtook the
lawyers pick-up and fired at the vehicle.

Both were killed on the spot due to multiple gunshot wounds.

Bade said the police recovered several empty shells of a .45 pistol and M16 rifles at the crime
scene. SFM

4. Vizcaya lawyer shot dead by cop By: Villamor Visaya Jr. Inquirer Northern Luzon /
December 02, 2016

TUGUEGARAO CITY A 29-year-old lawyer was shot dead by a police officer shortly
after midnight on December 1 in Nueva Vizcayas Diadi town.

PO1 Clifford Dulnuan killed Jemar Apada, a 29-year-old lawyer married to fellow police officer PO2
Jenny Apada, according to Chief Insp. Alexander Cabang, Diadi police chief.

Dulnuan had gone to the boarding house operated by PO2 Apada when he encountered the lawyer.

Police have not established why he shot Atty Apada, who was declared dead on arrival at a hospital
after sustaining gunshot wounds to the head and body. CDG/rga

5. LAWYER SHOT DEAD By: Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Dominic D. Yasay, Izobelle T.
Pulgo December 22nd, 2016

With just three days before Christmas, shock engulfed Cebus legal community in the wake of the
killing last night of a prominent Cebuano lawyer and the wounding of his son, also a lawyer.
Lawyers Goering Paderanga Sr. and his son Gerik were shot and wounded by a security guard
near their law firm at F. Ramos Street in Barangay Santa Cruz, Cebu City at past 8 p.m. on
Thursday.

The older Paderanga, 62, also the husband of Cebu Regional Trial Court Judge Sylva A.
Paderanga, sustained a gunshot wound on his body and died at the nearby Velez Hospital around
two hours later, at past 10 p.m., according to PO3 Gerry Genelaso of the Cebu City Police Offices
Homicide Section.

Gerik, 37, the oldest of the three children of Goering and Sylva, was hit in the nape and remained
in critical condition in the same hospital as of 11 p.m., revealed Genelaso.
The two victims were earlier rushed to Velez Hospital, located just a few meters from where they
were shot.

A witness said a security guard, identified as Jonathan Sanchez, was apparently lying in wait for
Gerik and shot the latter shortly after he stepped out of his law firm, the Paderanga, Iway and
Nonato law firm.

Witness account
Gerik had just boarded his vehicle, an Isuzu Trooper, when the assailant rushed forward and shot
him in the head.

A househelp and Geriks one-year-old nephew, who were with him in the vehicle, managed to
run.

When he heard the bursts of gunfire, Goering rushed out of the law firm. The assailant also shot
Goering before he fled on board a public utility vehicle, the witness whose identity is being
withheld, said.

Genelaso said they have yet to determine the motive behind the attack.
The witness told Cebu Daily News that no verbal argument took place before the shooting
happened.

Gidiretso ra gyud niya og pagpusil (He just shot the victims without any provocation), he said.
The witness said he knew the suspect since the latter was the guard on duty of a newly
constructed building located about 50 meters away from the Paderanga law firm.

The witness said Sanchez covered his uniform with a jacket when he shot the victims. The witness
was about 50 meters away from the crime scene when the shooting happened.

Judge Paderanga, the presiding judge of RTC Branch 16, could not be reached for comment.
The judge, the vice president for the Visayas of Fida (Federacion International de Abogadas)
Philippines, and Goering were former classmates and fellow member of the University of the
Philippines Law Alumni Cebu Foundation Inc. They have three children, namely, Gerik Caesare,
Georgeane Golda and Goering George Jr.

6. Lawyer, client shot dead in Bulacan Philippine Daily Inquirer / May 18, 2012

CITY OF MALOLOSA lawyer who used to work with the Inquirer and a policeman were shot and
killed by two men along MacArthur Highway in Barangay Tikay in this Bulacan capital Thursday
shortly after attending a court hearing here.

Superintendent Dave Poklay, city police chief, said lawyer Lysandro Sanchez, 52, and Police Officer
2 Ronnel Coquia, both from Metro Manila, were aboard a Nissan Sentra sedan and traveling on the
southbound lane of the highway when the gunmen, who were riding tandem on a motorcycle,
attacked them at about 11 a.m.

Poklay said Sanchez and Coquia were in Bulacan to attend a hearing at the Bulacan Regional Trial
Court located at the provincial capitol compound.

Poklay said initial reports he received from investigators showed that Sanchez was Coquias
defense counsel in a robbery case being heard by the Bulacan RTC.

He said investigators had yet to go over court records as they attempt to determine if the attack was
related to the court case.
Sanchez, worked for the Inquirer as head of the newspapers research section from 1995 to 1999,
and as head of the human resources section from 1993 to 1995.

Sanchez also worked at the Civil Service Commission as a personnel analyst, and at the National
Electrification Administration as cooperative development officer.

Sanchez earned his degree in political science from the National College of Business and Arts in
1981. He also took up a graduate course leading to a degree in master of business administration
at the Philippine School of Business Administration, and obtained a law degree from the Far Eastern
University in 1990.

Sanchez passed the bar in 1995. He later set up us his own firm, the Atty. Lysandro Sanchez Law
Office.

Sanchez was born on July 17, 1959 in Tondo, Manila. He is survived by his wife, Manuela
Fernandez, and children Jacqueline, Jennifer, Joanna, Juliet and Lysandro Jr. Carmela Reyes-
Estrope, Inquirer Central Luzon and Jamie Marie Elona, Inquirer.net

7. Lawyer shot dead in QC By: Nancy C. Carvajal Philippine Daily Inquirer / April 06,
2011MANILA, Philippines

A 50-year-old lawyer was shot dead by two motorcycle-riding men at a gasoline station in Quezon
City late Tuesday night, authorities said.

Chief Inspector Ariel Capocao, deputy head of the Quezon City Police District Criminal Investigation
Unit, said Joel Descalar, a resident of Saint Ignatius Village, had just come from a meeting at the
EDSA Shangri-La hotel in Mandaluyong City when he was shot a close range at around 10:50 p.m.

Capocao said the assailants might have tailed Descalar from the hotel and pounced on him when
he stopped for fuel.

Capocao said Descalar was on board his Nissan Frontier pickup getting gas at the Shell station
along Katipunan avenue and 4th Street, Barangay (village) St. Ignatius when the gunmen showed
up on a motorcycle with license plate PI5653.

He rolled down his window to tell the gas boy for a refuel when the suspects appeared and stopped
beside the victim and shot him several times at close range, Capocao said.

Descalar sustained three gunshot wounds in the face and two in the neck. He died on the spot.

Capocao said the killers were professionals based on how the shooting was carried out.

Senior Police Officer 2 Neil Garnace said that before the killing, Descalar called his family to say he
had just come from a meeting at the hotel and was on his way home.

Garnace said Descalars family could not say if he had received any threat but indicated the killing
might be connected to his job as a lawyer.
Garnace said they have coordinated with the Land Transportation Office to trace the ownership of
the motorcycle used by the killers.

He also said they have requested for the copy of the footage of the several closed-circuit television
cameras installed in the various areas of the station.

Witnesses told police that the assailants were wearing helmets but raised their shields when they
fired at the lawyer. Their faces were seen and recognizable because the helmet cover was up,
Garnace said.

8. Lawyer, cop shot dead in Bulacan By: Carmela Reyes-Estrope - Correspondent /

Inquirer Central Luzon / May 17, 2012

CITY OF MALOLOS, Bulacan, PhilippinesA lawyer and a policeman who had just attended a
court hearing here were shot and killed by two unidentified men along the MacArthur Highway on
Thursday, authorities said.

Superintendent Dave Poklay, city police chief, said lawyer Lizandro Sanchez and Police Officer
3 Ronnel Coquia, both from Metro Manila, were aboard a grey Nissan Sentra sedan and traveling
on the southbound lane of the highway in Barangay Tikay here when the gunmen, who were on
a motorcycle, attacked them at around 10:30 a.m.

Poklay said Sanchez and Coquia were in Bulacan to attend a hearing at the Bulacan regional trial
court located at the provincial capitol compound.

Poklay said initial reports he received from investigators showed that Sanchez was Coquias
defense counsel in a robbery case in the Bulacan RTC.

He said investigators have yet to get court records and determine if the attack was related to the
pending case. With Jamie Marie Elona, INQUIRER.net

9. Female lawyer shot dead, former Mandaue City administrator survives ambush
By: Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Apple Ta-as August 13th, 2015

A female lawyer was shot dead by two motorcycle-riding men along C. Ouano St in barangay
Looc, Mandaue City at 6:51 p.m., Thursday.

Lawyer Amelie Alegre, 35 years old, who was driving her BMW died on the spot after she
sustained multiple gunshot wounds in the body. Her associate in the law firm, lawyer Briccio
Joseph Boholst, who was seated at the backseat was also hit in the right leg, while a staffer,
seated at the passenger seat, identified as Antonio Pino, was hit in the abdomen.

Boholst, former president of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines Cebu City Chapter and former
Mandaue City administrator and Pino are both recuperating at the University of Cebu Medical
Center.

Alegres mother Marieta rushed to the crime scene immediately after learning about what
happened to her lone daughter. In an interview, Marieta revealed that her 35-year-old daughter
confided that shes been receiving death threats from her husband, Ryan Alegre, a businessman.
Ryan and Amelie were sweethearts at the University of San Carlos. They decided to get married
in 2004. But their relationship turned sour four years after.

Her husband eventually filed a petition to annul their marriage in court.

Senior Supt. Mariano Natu-el, Mandaue City Police Office chief, said they are securing the
testimonies of witnesses and will try to review the footage of the CCTV installed near a traffic light
located 100 meters away from the crime scene.

We couldnt give any conclusions for now, Natuel said. But the police official said they will invite
Amelies husband for questioning.

10. HLURB lawyer shot dead outside office in Quezon City By: Nancy C.
Carvajal Philippine Daily Inquirer / May 11, 2012

An arbiter for the Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board (HLURB) was gunned down in front of
the agencys office in Quezon City Thursday afternoon, according to a police official.

Superintendent Michael Macapagal, commander of the Quezon City Police Districts Station 9, said
that lawyer Leonardo Jacinto Soriano was declared dead on arrival at Philippine Heart Center for
Asia.

A police investigation showed that the victim was driving his car on Malakas Street around 4 p.m.
Thursday when he was shot by a still unidentified man.

Macapagal said the gunman might have waited for the victim in front of the HLURB, mingling with
the people going in and out of the gates to avoid being conspicuous.

He added that the gunman found an opportunity to kill the victim when Soriano, who was driving his
car, briefly stopped while leaving the agency to see if there was any oncoming traffic on Malakas
Street before he drove out on the street.

The police official said that according to witnesses, the gunman escaped by boarding a motorcycle
driven by a cohort right after the shooting.