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LOOK: Road rage suspect's car found

LOOK: Road rage suspect's car found

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Updated Jul 28, 2016 02:59 PM PHT

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(UPDATED) Police have recovered the car of Vhon Tanto, the Army reservist who is the main suspect in the road rage killing of cyclist Mark Vincent Geralde.

Tanto's vehicle, a red Hyundai Eon without plate number bearing conduction sticker MO-3745, is now in the custody of police in Aritao, Nueva Vizcaya.

The car, which police said is registered to a Carlos C. Rada Jr. from North Signal, Taguig City, has a sticker bearing the words "Hukbong Katihan ng Pilipinas."

Police earlier said the suspect left the vehicle in the house of his brother-in-law, Jonathan Leano, in Purok 3, Kirang, Aritao, Nueva Vizcaya.

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Leano, 39, told police his brother-in-law had boarded a Florida bus going to Sampaloc-Cubao via SCTEX Wednesday morning.

The vehicle is set to be turned over to the Philippine National Police (PNP) Highway Patrol Group (HPG) in Camp Crame.

Authorities have started a manhunt for Tanto who is suspected of shooting Geralde in cold blood last Monday.

July 25, 2016 –A cyclist ends up dead after being shot by a driver during a road rage incident at P. Casal Street in Quiapo, Manila last Monday. Nikon Celis, ABS-CBN News

CCTV footage, broadcast on national TV, showed a motorist confronting another man on a bicycle on Monday evening.

The two men initially engage in a fist-fight before one of them takes out a gun and shoots the other five times at close range, said investigating officer Charles John Duran.

Police later identified the shooter as Tanto.

"It looks like a case of road rage. There was a confrontation. The cyclist put the suspect in a headlock and the suspect then retreated. Then he takes out a gun from his car," Duran said.

"He shot (the cyclist) in the head and then fired four more shots as he lay on the ground," the police officer said.

A ricochet hit an 18-year-old woman nearby and she is still in critical condition, Duran added. - With reports from Danielle Louise Rebollos, ABS-CBN News; Agence France-Presse

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