TUGUEGARAO CITY-Almost 11 years after former city councilor Rosemarie “Osang” Bunagan-Bansig was shot and killed in November 2014, the gunman has finally resurfaced in Mandaluyong City and was turned over to the city police here on Friday (February 7), police said on Saturday.
The suspected gunman, named only by the police as alias Gabby, 44, a native of Iguig town and resident of Santa Maria in Bulacan, had a pending arrest warrant for murder at the Regional Trial Court Branch 10 in Tuguegarao City in 2017, Police Brig. Gen. Antonio Marallag Jr., Cagayan Valley regional police director, said.
Marallag earlier ordered a review of pending arrest warrants against Gabby, one was the murder case due to the killing of Tuguegarao City councilor Rosemarie “Osang” Bunagan-Bansig.
Police Colonel Rodelio Samson, PNP-Region 2 deputy regional director for operations, said Alias Gabby initially gave up to the Mandaluyong city police through a radio program of a senator and later turned over to the Cagayan Valley police.
The killed councilor’s husband, Army Colonel Tim Bansig of the Army Judge Advocate General’s Office, said they suffered difficulties of the process he went through to track down those behind the killing.
“More than a decade since the incident, the anger in their hearts has disappeared but justice is needed,” Bansig added.
However, Bansig believed that the arrested gunman is not the real killer himself but the mastermind who ordered him to kill his wife.
Bansig also called on the authorities to watch the gunman “because with his surrender comes the possibility that someone will attempt on his life so that the truth behind the crime cannot be revealed.”
The late councilor was traveling with her driver along Buntun-Pallua Road in this city when two motorcycle-riding men shot them and killed her.#
