Posted on 06/20/2022 10:09:17 AM PDT by DFG
A Philippine government attorney was fatally shot while riding in an Uber with his mother on their way to the airport in Philadelphia, police said.
Prosecutor John Albert Laylo, 35, and his mom, Leah Bustamante Laylo, were heading to Philadelphia International Airport to catch a flight home from a vacation in the US when gunfire broke out around 4 a.m. Saturday, police said.
Police said someone in a black car fired several rounds into the victims’ Uber at a red light near the University of Pennsylvania, striking Laylo in the back of the head.
The gunman then moved to the driver’s side and fired additional shots before fleeing.
The Philippine official was rushed to Penn Presbyterian Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 10:33 a.m. Sunday. His mother was hospitalized with shrapnel wounds from shattered glass, according to Philippine Consul General Elmer Cato and Bustamante Laylo.
“Never did I imagine or dream that … the end of our vacation will be like this!” the mother wrote in a post accompanied by photos of her and her son happily posing up at landmarks in New York, Washington, DC and Philadelphia. “We travelled together and we are supposed to go home together! I will bring him home soon in a box!”
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“It was a planned assassination.
Mother and driver were not hit. Shooter was waiting outside his pace of residence. Then shot at him from one side, then moved to other side of vehicle to shoot again
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My sis IN LAWS are FILIPINOS. They “were” Robredo fans until she lost.
The majority of the govt. are now Marcos cronies. Duterte’s daughter is the VP and is now SCRIPTED that she will “win” in 6 years time. What is a head scratcher here is that the masses voted for a family who STOLE BILLIONS, and this didn’t bother them.
From what my in-law explained, the guy supposedly on Philippine talk radio, did not go along with newly-elected Marcos policies.
She was hit by shards of glass, not shrapnel. Shrapnel are fragments from a bomb or other explosion.
LOL! No arguments there!
Merciful Maude.
That wasn’t a random killing. That reads as a ‘hit.’
Steve Doocy on “Fox & Friends” was discussing travel tips with a self-styled travel expert this morning. Steve recommended taking the earliest flight possible (because so many flights are being cancelled these days).
You may be on to something.
There's some weirdness going on with his employer, Leila de Lima, who's under some sort of detention. I have neither the time, or mental capacity to sift through the Byzantian intricacies of Philippine politics, but when I searched Manila, this was the top story
https://manilastandard.net/news/national/314237771/de-lima-arrives-in-manila-doctors-for-major-surgery.html
I live in Pennsylvania. We all know that it is too dangerous to go out on the streets of Philly at night. The general exception is for devoted sports nuts who are fanatical enough to risk driving a couple of blocks from the stadium to the four lane.
I too live in central PA. It is a shame what has happened to our country and cities all at the hands and policies of the left. But the Federal AG says our problems are all due to white supremacists. Yet I never hear or see of any crime from any, nor do I know of any. But any trip to most areas of Philly would put you in contact with the criminal element responsible for most crime.
This case does sound like a hit but then we are in the dark to authorities and media.
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