Suspect in shooting of radio commentator arrested

CMFR/Philippines – The police arrested on 27 August 2014 the alleged shooter of a radio commentator who had been shot and wounded a day earlier in Dagupan City. The suspect is the radio commentator’s neighbor and is also alleged to be a drug-pusher, the police said.

Dagupan City in the province of Pangasinan is about 200 kilometers north of Metro Manila.

Police arrested Rolando Lim on Wednesday afternoon for the shooting of dwIZ radio commentator Orlando “Orly” Navarro last 26 August 2014. He was charged with frustrated murder at the Dagupan City Regional Trial Court. Navarro and other witnesses positively identified Lim as the shooter, the police said.

Hours after the shooting, Navarro told the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines that the motive for the attempt to kill him might have been his recent exposes on illegal drugs in their village.

At around 1:00 a.m. on 26 August, Navarro was talking to a tricycle driver in Pantal village, Dagupan City, when he was shot in the back once. The tricycle driver immediately brought him to a hospital where he has since been in stable condition.