m. by a still unidentified suspect in front of his horrified wife along a busy Datu Piang Street.
Akrima, the victim’s wife, said they were to go out of their home to eat when they noticed two men waiting for his husband along a narrow passageway.
It was too late for them to back out as one of the two suspects immediately pulled his caliber .45 pistol and opened fire on Upi.[]
He sustained six gunshot wounds and died on the spot.
Senior Insp. Lorenzo Henares, station commander of police precinct 1, said the victim was in their rogue list as one of the “notorious” personality behind “bukas-kotse” activities in the city.
Police said Upi was tagged as among the suspects who robbed the licensed caliber .45 pistol and money left inside the van of Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) Representative Raymond Mendoza in 2014. The latter’s vehicle was parked along Salipada K. Pendatun street during his visit in the city while eating lunch inside South Seas mall.
The robbing incident was caught on CCTV, police said.
