Top Malacañang official's son shot dead in QC

abs-cbnNEWS.com | 11/19/2009 8:15 AM

A Malacañang official's son was shot dead by a foreigner on board a diplomatic car along Boni Serrano Avenue in Quezon City, late Wednesday night.

Renato Victor Ebarle Jr., son of Presidential Chief of Staff Renato Ebarle Sr., died of three gunshot wounds in the body, which was found slumped on his Toyota Land Cruiser's driver's seat along the avenue.

Superintendent Ferdinand Ampil, chief of the Quezon City police's Station 7, said that based on the accounts of several witnesses, the shooter was a foreigner on board a blue wagon with diplomatic plate number 20903.

Ampil added that the shooter has a tattoo on his right arm.

He said the foreigner got irked and shot Ebarle three times after a traffic altercation.

He said several people saw the shooter got off the blue wagon and shot Ebarle three times through his vehicle's windshield.

Relatives said Ebarle had just left his girlfriend's home and was already on his way home when the incident happened.

An uncle of the victim said the presidential chief of staff, who is in Mindanao at the time of the shooting, has been informed of his son's death. -- Report from Doland Castro, ABS-CBN News

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MANILA, Philippines - The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) on Thursday released the results of the ballistic tests on the handgun used by Jason Aguilar Ivler in both the November 18 killing of Renato Victor Ebarle Jr. and during the shootout with NBI operatives last Monday.

The bullet taken from the body of Ebarle Jr., son of Palace official Renato Ebarle Sr., the bullets found and taken by police from the vehicle of Ebarle Jr. last November 18 , and the bullets found in the residence of Ivler's mother, Marlene Aguilar, in Blue Ridge, Quezon City matched with the test bullets from the Kimber .45 caliber pistol recovered from Ivler during the encounter last Monday with arresting NBI agents.

Ivler allegedly shot dead Ebarle Jr. following a traffic altercation near the Philippine National Police headquarters in Camp Crame, Quezon City.

Ivler was shot and injured during Monday's encounter with NBI operatives. He is currently recuperating at the Quirino Memorial Medical Center in Quezon City. -- report from Maan Macapagal, ABS-CBN News

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