By Mortz C. Ortigoza
CALASIAO, Pangasinan – Former police Brigadier General Marlou Cortez Chan was assassinated by two motorcycles riding in tandem killers near the Regency Hotel
here while his car was traversing the highway.
According to a police officer, who asked for anonymity,
Chan was with his driver when the short firearm-wielding gunman shot him with
volley of fires.
“There were five empty shells of .45 caliber
found on the vicinity of the crime,” the source cited to this writer who
went to the police office here for a copy of Spot Report of the incident.
The peace officer told this newspaper that the office could
not give the Report until Police Regional Office-1 Director Brig. Gen
Joel Sabio Orduña and Police Provincial Office Director Col. Redrico Maranan
arrived for a briefing and press conference at five o’clock in the afternoon today
at the function hall there.
"Sir, just wait for the Report because what is involved here is a high profile personality".
"Sir, just wait for the Report because what is involved here is a high profile personality".
Chan was-shot- to- death inside his Ford Ranger Pick-up at 2:55 this afternoon.
His driver, Juanito Lozada, Jr. was unhurt, drove him to the Villaflor
Hospital in Dagupan City.
The retired general however expired there with bullet
wounds on the chest.
"The doctors there try to revive him but he was already D.O.A (Dead on Arrival). He was hit on the vascular or major blood vessels," a surgeon, who asked not to be named, told this writer.
"The doctors there try to revive him but he was already D.O.A (Dead on Arrival). He was hit on the vascular or major blood vessels," a surgeon, who asked not to be named, told this writer.
Chan was former Police PPO Director of Pangasinan in 2012 –2013.
As Police Provincial Office Director and Deputy Regional
Director for Administration (DPDA) of the Police Regional Office -1 based in San Fernando City, La Union during
the administration of President Benigno Aquino III, Chan was a powerful but
controversial figure.
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| SCENE. The crime scene at the highway in Barangay Nalsian, Calasiao, Pangasinan where retired police general Marlou C. Chan was assassinated by two motorcycles' riders in tandem. Witnesses saw hit men riding on two Yamaha Mio motorbikes.Photo Credit: Atty. Joey Netu Tamayo |
The native of San Quintin, Pangasinan had the ears of a
provincial politician and Department of Interior & Local Government
Secretary Mar Roxas who to appoint and not to appoint for the posts of the PPO
Director and the PRO-1 Director in Region 1 during the Aquino Administration in 2010 to
2016.
He was also rumored to run for the mayoralty of San Quintin in the 2022 Election.
During the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte, Chan was reassigned from PRO-1 to Directorate for Integrated Police Operations (DIPO) in Mindanao and later Northern Luzon.
DIPO is not a glamorous post because it is considered as a floating position to generals who are not under the graces of the power-that-be.
Police investigators are looking for Chan's personal life, his business dealings, and those related in his police career as motive for the broad daylight murder.
He retired from the Philippine National Police upon reaching the mandatory age of 56 in April 2019.
He was also rumored to run for the mayoralty of San Quintin in the 2022 Election.
During the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte, Chan was reassigned from PRO-1 to Directorate for Integrated Police Operations (DIPO) in Mindanao and later Northern Luzon.
DIPO is not a glamorous post because it is considered as a floating position to generals who are not under the graces of the power-that-be.
Police investigators are looking for Chan's personal life, his business dealings, and those related in his police career as motive for the broad daylight murder.
He retired from the Philippine National Police upon reaching the mandatory age of 56 in April 2019.
Chan is a graduate of Class 1985 of the Philippine
Military Academy.
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