Judge killed in Camarines Sur
NAGA CITY – A Municipal Trial Court Judge was killed in his own home in Presentacion town, Camarines Sur, police said on Wednesday.
According to a police report, a man identified as Wilfredo Armea went to the house of Ricky Begino, 49, in Barangay Sta. Maria, around 5 p.m. Tuesday.
As Begino tried to open the door, Armea shot him on his neck, the report said.
Begino was presiding MTC Judge of San Jose, Lagonoy and Presentacion
towns in Camarines Sur.
He was brought to the hospital for treatment but died at around 8 p.m. Tuesday. Armea was arrested in a follow-up police operation later that night. /kga
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