The homicide section of the Dumaguete City police was continuing up to press time yesterday its effort to find leads that could result in the arrest of the person who shot dead a butcher and livestock buyer early Sunday morning in Purok Tugas, Brgy. Cadawinonan, Dumaguete.

Police identified the victim as Antonio Adling, 34, single of Purok Caimito, Brgy. Balugo who succumbed to bullet wounds on his back and right knee.

Cadawinonan barangay tanod chief, Juventino Salboro, told the police that at about 1 a.m. Sunday, he heard five gunshots from Purok Tugas but he did not go to the area because it was dark. At about 6 a.m. a group of young people informed him that they found a body slumped on the side of a road in Tugas.

Responding policemen called to the crime scene found the body and recovered a black cap, a purse coin containing P81.45, three .38 caliber live bullets, and a bloodstained pair of slippers.*RG

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