POLICE investigators are looking into two angles, including personal grudge, in connection with the ambush-slaying of a police major in Abulug town in Cagayan last Monday night.
“The usual angles — work-related and personal grudge,” PNP chief Rodolfo Azurin Jr. told reporters yesterday at Camp Crame on the angles the PNP is looking into.
Maj. Rafael Tangonan, 36, assigned with the Finance Service of the Cagayan Valley regional police office, was driving his pick-up truck when he was attacked by unidentified assailants in Barangay Libertad.
Police said a van overtook the slow-moving vehicle of Tangonan and its occupants opened fire at Tangonan’s vehicle.
Tangonan was brought to the Far North Hospital for gunshot wounds in the body and in the head but was declared dead on arrival.
“The investigation on the killing of Maj. Tangonan is ongoing. (Investigators) are looking at different angles, different motives on why Maj. Tangonan was killed, was ambushed. I hope there will be developments in the next few days about the killing,” said Azurin, who did not elaborate on the personal grudge angle.
