(CMFR/IFEX) – After a four-month wait, the police finally gained headway in the 3 May 2005 killing of commentator Klein Cantoneros, with the recent arrest of a suspect in Ozamiz City, about 830 kilometres south of Manila. Robert Woo, 32, was arrested at a local village on 14 September, with the help of an unnamed […]
(CMFR/IFEX) – After a four-month wait, the police finally gained headway in the 3 May 2005 killing of commentator Klein Cantoneros, with the recent arrest of a suspect in Ozamiz City, about 830 kilometres south of Manila.
Robert Woo, 32, was arrested at a local village on 14 September, with the help of an unnamed witness who identified him as among the three men who tailed Cantoneros moments before the journalist was gunned down.
Another witness also pointed to Woo as one of several men who followed Cantoneros inside a local restaurant on the evening of 3 May, just a couple of hours before the incident took place.
Woo, however, denied his involvement in the killing of Cantoneros, a broadcaster who bought air time from a local radio station in Dipolog City and was known for lambasting local officials.
Dennis Baguio, a reporter for the local weekly “The Mindanao Observer”, the sister publication of radio station DXAA, where Cantoneros worked, said the public could now expect the eventual identification of the mastermind.
Woo was a member of Task Force Lupad, an anti-crime group under the local government of Dapitan City, whose mayor is Romeo Jalosjos.
Cantoneros died less than a day after the fatal shooting.
