Tarlac City – – A contractor-engineer was shot dead in broad daylight by motorcycle riding criminals (MRCs) inside a memorial park at Barangay Binauganan, February 2.
According to PCInsp Augusto Pasamonte, chief of the Provincial Investigation and Detection Management Branch (PIDMB), killed with 2 gunshots wounds was Engr. Marcelino Ibarra y Flores, 50 years old, of Barangay Dalayap.
Ibarra is the manager of MFI Construction and Trading and is the contractor of the Forest Lake Memmorial Park where he was shot at around 9 in the morning.
Ibarra just arrived at the memorial park construction site and was talking to his mini dump truck driver Larry Cortez when the 2 gunmen approached and one of them shot him point blank on his face with caliber .45 pistol.
Cortez was left unhurt despite being poked with a gun by the second killer.
The killers were described as “professional gun-for-hire” and with well-built bodies.
Ibarra was pronounced dead-on-arrival at the Jecson Medical Center here.
Police are still looking on the possible motive on the “brutal murder” of Ibarra whose neighbors say has no known enemies.
Three caliber 45 shells were found at the crime scene./Nelson Bolos; FB Central Luzon News Center