MINDANAO DAILY YOUR MINDANAO-WIDE NEWSPAPER
Volume VII, No. 163 Website: www.mindanaodailynews.com
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December 4, 2017
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PNP creates Task Force Dr. Rotoras By CRIZ DIAZ Executive Editor with GERRY LEE GORIT and MARK FRANCISCO Correspondents
THE Cagayan de Oro City Police Office (Cocpo) on Saturday created a task force that will investigate the killing of Dr. Ricardo Rotoras, the president of state-owned University of Science and Technology of Southern Philippines (USTP). Senior Supt. Roy Bahian, chief of the Cagayan de Oro City Police Office (Cocpo), said the task force was created eight hours after the shooting to determine the
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motive of the killing and identify the suspects and the mastermind of the shooting. The lead agency is the Cagayan de Oro City Police Office (Cocpo) with the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) and the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) as members. Bahian said the 48-yearsold Rotoras, also the incumbent President of the Philippine Association of State Universities and Colleges (PASUC), was shot dead at close range by three unidentified gunmen when the official went home about
1:00 a.m. Saturday from a party held in an outskirt hotel here, Bahian said. Bahian said that the suspects may have waited for the victim to come home and might have prior knowledge that Rotoras was attending a party. Jonathan Mabaylan, the driver of Rotoras, told the police that Rotoras came out of the car and walked toward their house while he negotiated the vehicle to park when he noticed that the official was sprawled to the ground. “I saw Rotoras USTP President Dr. Ricardo Rotoras’ gesture during a recent Masonic event. See creates, page 11
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