(2nd Update) RP Muay Thai group prexy shot dead
abs-cbnNEWS.com | 02/21/2009 1:43 PM
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Police are now hunting down a former athlete suspected of shooting dead the president of the Muay Thai Association of the Philippines at the PhilSports Arena (formerly Ultra) in Pasig City, Saturday morning.
Police said Roberto Valdez, president of Muay Thai Philippines, was shot inside his office at the PhilSports Arena around 10 a.m. He died at the Medical City hospital in Ortigas Center.
The victim's wife, Grace, told radio dzMM that her husband was shot three times to the body by a certain Sonny Somales. She said Somales was an expelled member of Muay Thai association member and an "AWOL" member of the Philippine Army.
She said that according to eyewitnesses, Somales barged inside her husband's office and fired a .45 pistol. The suspect escaped after the shooting.
Grace said her husband died of a gunshot wound in the chest.
