Solano, Nueva Vizcaya — Prominent human rights lawyer Ernesto Salunat was shot dead by still unknown suspects. He was gunned down in front of the town’s municipal trial court yesterday morning.
Salunat was also the campaign manager of LP, succumbed to four bullet wounds on the neck and head while being treated at the Medical Mission Group Hospital where he was rushed shortly after being shot.
Attending physicians declared him dead at around 10:05 a.m. or about two hours after he was shot by one of the suspects riding in tandem on a motorcycle in front of the MTC here just after alighting from his white BMW car.
The police are still establishing leads and are yet to give their official statement.
