Manila: A radio telecaster was lethally shot inside his studio in the Philippines on Sunday, police said, the most recent in an extensive rundown of columnists killed in the country.
Juan Jumalon, 57, was in his locally situated studio on the southern island of Mindanao when a shooter shot him in the head, said Commander Deore Ragonio, police boss in Calamba district.
Jumalon is the fourth writer to be killed since President Ferdinand Marcos got down to business in June of 2022, the Public Association of Columnists said, censuring “the shameless killing”.
The archipelago country is perhaps of the most hazardous spot on the planet for columnists, and their executioners frequently slip by everyone’s notice.
Radio telecasters outside the capital are oftentimes the objective.
Marcos censured the “murder” of Jumalon and requested the specialists to “quickly deal with the culprits”.
“Assaults on columnists won’t go on without serious consequences in our majority rules system, and the people who undermine the opportunity of the press will confront the full results of their activities,” Marcos said in a post via virtual entertainment.
Police said the suspect acquired section to Jumalon’s studio by professing to need to make a live declaration.
He got away and Jumalon was articulated dead at a clinic, police said.
The assault was recorded on record, said Paul Gutierrez, the top of the Official Team on Media Security.
It showed the suspect shooting the telecaster two times and getting his gold neckband prior to leaving, Gutierrez said.
“While the rationale is still up in the air, we consider this episode as ‘business related’ for the occasion,” Gutierrez said in an explanation.
Police boss Ragonio said they were examining a rationale in the killing. They didn’t know about any past dangers against Jumalon’s life.
“He handles generally recent developments and isn’t known to have reprimanded anybody in his transmissions,” Ragonio told AFP.
Jumalon utilized the name “DJ Johnny Walker” in his Cebuano-language show at the 94.7 Gold FM Calamba station.
His transmissions were likewise broadcasted on the station’s Facebook page, which has 2,400 adherents.
