CEBU CITY — Former Talisay City Councilor Emil Go was gunned down inside his cockpit farm located beside his house at Mansueto Village in Barangay Bulacao, Talisay City, at least 12 km south of here, past 6 p.m. on Wednesday. The victim was rushed to the Talisay City District Hospital. Go served as councilor of Talisay from 2001 to 2007 under the group of Gabby Leyson who ran and lost to Socrates Fernandez in the mayoralty race in Talisay City in 2007. In May 2013, Go was shot and wounded in the neck after a retired police officer, SPO3 Ulysses Desamparado, shot him and another person during cockfighting dispute in Barangay Bulacao, Talisay. In March 2017, Go’s son, Frederick, a former councilor of Barangay Bulacao, Talisay, was arrested together with a police officers, and two other persons in a drug raid.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer March 21, 2018 13:52 UTC