By Kit Bagaipo
The Bohol Chronicle
A suspected former leader of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army (CPP-NPA) in Central Visayas was shot dead by a still unidentified gunman Thursday night.
The victim was identified as Ronald Sendrijas y Cempron who was gunned down 9:20 p.m. while buying medicine from a pharmacy along Gallares Street, this city. He was celebrating his 35th birthday last Thursday.
SPO4 David Niluag of the City PNP said Sendrijas visited his sister, Aileen Pasagad, who had just given birth at the Ramiro Hospital last Thursday.
Two assailants riding on a motorcycle arrived at the vicinity and the back-rider disembarked from the vehicle, approached Sendrijas and shot him twice, Niluag said.
Sendrijas was shot in the back of his head with a 9-millimeter pistol. The attackers then fled the crime scene towards Visarra Street.
Pasagad, in an interview few hours after the incident, said that her brother had been receiving death threats in the past several months.
She said her brother claimed he was under surveillance. Pasagad also said that a few hours before her brother was murdered, Sendrijas allegedly received a call through his cell phone from one of those making the death threats.
According to Pasagad, her brother showed her one text message, which said he would be killed on his birthday but did not identify the persons behind the death threats.
Bohol Provincial Police Director SSupt. Edgardo Ingking said in a separate interview that the PNP would be checking on the status of Sendrijas' several cases still pending in the courts.
"These cases were related to his activities as an active member of the CPP-NPA," Ingking said.
The military and police operatives arrested Sendrijas (also known as "Ka Aram" and "Foreigner") in the mountain village of Gutlang in Argao town, Cebu in May 2004 but was released after posting bail in August 2006.
Sendrijas was captured with another suspected NPA commander, Jigger Geverola, now detained at the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC).
Sendrijas, a native of San Jose, Inabanga, Bohol, had been charged with rebellion, murder, multiple murder, multiple frustrated murder and robbery in band.
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