Personal grudge motivated a 46-year-old unmarried man to shoot dead a bus collector and to stab dead the bus driver along the national highway in Barangay Manuangan here Monday night, police said.
Senior Inspector Donaldo Cabigas, Pigcawayan police chief, said a long standing feud between the suspect and the bus collector was believed to be the real motive.
“The motive was personal grudge, it was not a case of hold-up,” Cabigas said.
He identified the suspect as Melco Lavinia, 46, former barangay tanod of Barangay Poblacion 3, Midsayap, North Cotabato.
The driver was identified as Rogelio Valdevieso of Toril, Davao City and the collector Adam Bael of Bansalan, Davao del Sur.
According to witnesses, Lavinia, who wore a bull cap, boarded the Weena Bus (MVV-364) at 6:45 p.m. in front of Pigcawayan town hall and sat at the back portion of the vehicle with about a dozen passengers.
Baby Chan Soldevilla, one of the passengers, said they heard two gun shots at the back and saw the bus collector slumped on the floor.
Lavinia then proceeded to the front of the bus and told the driver to stop so he could alight.
Alarmed by what happened to his bus collector, Valdevieso locked the door and attempted to grab the suspect’s hand gun and grenade.
But Valdevieso was shot and stabbed dead by the suspect who returned to the vehicle when he saw people milling around the vehicle armed with huge stones and bolo.
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