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BAGUIO CITY — Police are preparing the filing of murder charges against two suspects in the murder of a businesswoman in Bangued, Abra’s capital town, last Monday morning.

Catherine Andallo Aguilar, 38, a hog raiser, from Barangay Quilliat Langiden town was reportedly sitting on her motorcycle parked in front of West Central School in Barangay Zone 3, Bangued, when two motorcycle-riding gunmen shot her twice in the head.

Ms. Aguilar was immediately taken to the Abra Provincial Hospital by Bangued policemen who arrived at the scene, but doctors declared her dead on arrival.

Major Major Paul Claveria, Bangued police chief, said the suspected gunman was arrested at a checkpoint in Barangay Patucannay, Tayum and police found in his possession a .45-caliber pistol loaded with five bullets.

Mr. Claveria’s follow-up operatives, on the other hand, cornered the suspected driver of the motorcycle — a 21-year-old from Quilliat, Langiden, Abra whose surname is the same as the arrested gunman’s surname — in the village of Lingtan in Bangued.

Homicide investigators are in the process of tying two bullet casings and a deformed slug lifted at the crime scene to the firearm seized from the suspected gunman.

Mr. Claveria said relatives of the victim have been mum on the possible motive in the killing of Ms. Aguilar. — Artemio A. Dumlao

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