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Date: 01 March 2010
Source: http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/insideMetro.htm?f=2010/march/1/metro2.isx&d=2010/march/1

Mikey Arroyo witness shot dead in ambush

Confessed illegal gambling operator Wilfredo Mayor was shot dead by four gunmen in a dawn ambush in Pasay City yesterday.

Mayor, who had implicated presidential son Pampanga Rep. Mikey Arroyo in jueteng operations, was declared dead on arrival at the San Juan De de Dios Medical Center.

Senior Supt. Raul Petrasanta, Pasay police chief, said a brother-in-law, registered nurse Allan Benedict Castro, 39, sustained several bullet wounds. Nephew Rommel Mayor, 39, was unhurt.

“It was clear that Mayor was the target. His companions survived,” he said.

The victims were in a blue Volvo sedan with vanity plate number RRR-606 when the attackers started shooting around 4 a.m. in front of Park and Fly parking terminal along MIA Road.

Amid a hail of bullets from M-16 rifles and caliber .45 pistols, the Volvo, driven by Castro, went to a complete stop in front of Our Lady of Airways church at the corner of Chapel Road.

Petrasanta said the three reportedly came from a casino in Malate, Manila and that they were on their way home to Mayor’s house in Executive Village Subdivision in BF Homes, Parañaque City.

“Four men on two motorcycles drove past the Volvo and opened fire,” he said, adding that most of the bullet holes were at the front passenger seat where Mayor was; Rommel was at the back.

The 1996 Volvo Series 850 GLT was registered in the name of a certain Gabriel Conception, whose identity and relation to Mayor was being verified as of press time.

Crime scene investigators recovered 5.56 mm and .45 caliber shells scattered in the ambush site.

Mayor, 54, admitted being a jueteng operator in Bicol and Central Luzon during a Senate hearing on May 2005, alleging that the First Son, then vice governor of Pampanga, was receiving P600,000 a month.

He also told the Senate that former Bicol congressmen Crisel Lagman-Luistro (1st District) and Carlos Imperial (2nd District) and and present Albay Governor Joey Salceda (3rd district) also received monthly P250,000, P300,000 and P400,000, respectively. Ferdinand Fabella