3 dead in shooting at top Philippines university - ‘determined’ assassin had two guns
- A former mayor was among those killed as she attended her daughter’s graduation at Ateneo de Manila University – police say it appears to be an assassination
- A suspect, wounded in a shoot-out with campus security, was arrested after a car chase and is in custody being interrogated
Three people died in a shooting at a university graduation ceremony in the Philippines’ capital region on Sunday, including a former mayor from the volatile south of the country, police said.
Local Quezon City police chief Remus Medina said the shooting appeared to have been an assassination of the former mayor of the southern Lamitan city, Rose Furigay.
The suspect, wounded in a shoot-out with a campus security officer and arrested after a car chase, was now in custody and being interrogated, Medina told reporters.
“He looks like he was a determined assassin,” Medina said, adding he was found with two pistols.
Quezon is part of the Manila capital region, an urban sprawl of 16 cities home to more than 13 million people.
Furigay was shot as she was about to attend the graduation of her daughter at the law school of Ateneo de Manila University, one of the country’s most prestigious, Medina said.
