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Date: 21 January 2013
Source: http://www.interaksyon.com/article/53198/ex-village-chief-in-vote-rich-site-shot-dead-p0-3-m-reward-raised-for-gunmans-capture

TAYTAY, Rizal – A lone gunman shot in the head a former barangay chairman of a lakeshore community known for yielding solid votes, and probers are eyeing the political angle, as the victim had recently joined the camp of the incumbent mayor.
 
Initial reports from the local police identified the casualty as 40-year old Avelino delas Alas, former chairman of Barangay Sta. Ana in this municipality east of Metro Manila.

Probers said he was supervising physical preparations for the feast of Sitio Lupang Arenda, when an unidentified man, armed with a .45 caliber hand gun, approached from behind and shot him once, hitting his nape. The suspect casually walked away and remains at large.
 
Village folk rushed the victim to the hospital but he was dead on arrival.
 
The victim had run for various local positions in the past, and recently reactivated his political work. Delas Alas, who lives in vote-rich Lupang Arenda, opted to join incumbent Mayor Joric Gacula’s group — an angle that the police investigators are looking at.
 
Gacula denounced what he described as a senseless political killing and put up a P300,000 reward for the capture of the suspect.
 
Asked on who could have been behind the slaying, Gacula declined to comment but vowed to get to the bottom of it. “Politics should not be made a reason to have one person killed,” he added.
 
Delas Alas, also the president of the Lupang Arenda Homeowners Association, is known for delivering solid votes from the 80-hectare lakeshore relocation area inhabited by around 50,000 families who used to form part of squatter colonies from Metro Manila cities.