Police capture suspect in road-rage shooting that killed an Abra nurse

On the night of Oct. 23, a male nurse from Sitio Bacsil, Barangay Angad, and his daughter were attacked while driving home on the Bacsil-Angad road in Bangued, Abra. Unidentified shooters on two motorcycles fired repeatedly, killing the nurse with a head wound and injuring his daughter in the left back and left thigh. Police collected three.45-caliber shell casings, a bullet and a metal fragment from the scene.

After a hot-pursuit, officers from the Bangued Municipal Police Station and the 1st Provincial Mobile Force Company arrested a suspect around 1:30 a.m. on Saturday in Tayum, seizing an unmarked.45 pistol and two empty magazines. The case is still under investigation, and legal proceedings are being prepared against the arrested individual.