MAKATI CITY - The missing wife of the late reggae artist Dominic "Papa Dom" Gamboa was found dead on a street in Makati City, with a gunshot wound in her head, police said Friday.

Police, however, are still looking for leads on who killed Amparo "Teng" Santaromana Gamboa.

Nico Gamboa, a son of Dominic and Amparo, earlier appealed to the public to help find his mother, who went missing early Wednesday morning after her work at a call center along Rada Street in Makati City.

He told ABS-CBN News that his mom last sent a text message to him around 1 a.m. Wednesday.

Amparo told her son that she'd be home around 3 a.m.

When family sought police help, they found out that the body of a dead woman was found on a street near a garbage dumpsite in Guadalupe Nuevo the same Wednesday morning.

They confirmed that the dead woman was Amparo when they saw her body in a funeral parlor.

She had a gunshot wound in her head.

Senior Insp. Roman Salazar, deputy chief of investigation of the Makati police, believes that the victim may have been killed elsewhere and her body was dumped in the area.

Based on CCTV footage taken where Gamboa worked, she left the office at around 2:26 a.m.

Her body was found at 2:45 a.m., less than 20 minutes after she left work.

Salazar said that initial findings did not indicate any abrasion or contusion on the victim's body which may indicate that she did not fight back at her assailant.

Police are not setting aside the robbery angle because the victim's bag, which contained her wallet and mobile phone, is missing.

Investigators are also being required to get a court order to secure a copy of the CCTV footage taken outside a bank near where Gamboa worked.

The CCTV operator, however, told police that the victim left the building and walked towards Legazpi Street.

Police are now trying to get other possible CCTV footage in the area that might show the vehicle that carried Gamboa.

They are also trying to get leads through the help of a telecom company to find out who Gamboa was communicating with before she was killed.

The victim's husband, Papa Dom Gamboa, was the founding member and vocalist of the '90s reggae band Tropical Depression. He died in December 2013.

Gamboa, whose career spanned over two decades, is credited for popularizing reggae in the local music scene. Tropical Depression was known for incorporating Philippine indigenous instruments with its music. - from a report by Dominic Almelor, ABS-CBN News