Police: Gunman in Halili slay shot mayor from higher ground

TANAUAN CITY - A reenactment of the killing of Tanauan City mayor Antonio Halili showed that the gunman was on a higher ground when he took the shot. Chief Supt. Edward Carranza, chief of the Calabarzon police, said the gunman was 4.1 meters high from the ground and the shot was fired at an aerial distance of 76.8 meters from Halili. With the use of a range finder, police measured the gunman's distance from Halili, who was then standing together with city government employees in singing the national anthem during Monday's flag raising ceremony. Investigators on Thursday morning recovered an empty shell of a 5.56-mm bullet from the hill where the gunman, supposedly down on th...

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