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By Uriel Quilinguing, Contributing Editor

A LAW practitioners’ organization and a students fraternity yesterday condemned the killing of lawyer Winston B. Intong in Malaybalay City Thursday morning.

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Officers of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines Bukidnon chapter, in a board resolution, urged police and other law enforcement agencies to investigate what they describe as gruesome and despicable act.

Fraternitas Scintilla Legis Xavier University chapter, a law school-based fraternity, in a statement hours after Intong’s death, also called upon all concerned agencies “to immediately address this case and see to it that all perpetrators be brought to justice.”

The IBP Bukidnon resolution, which was signed by chapter president Richard P. Lusica and 10 other officers and directors, took note that Intong was into private practice prior to his demise and has been their member.

“The killing of a member of the Philippine Bar is outrageous and a mockery on the competence and integrity of the pillars of the judicial system,” the IBP Bukidnon Chapter Resolution No. 001-2021 states.

Intong had been with the IBP Bukidnon chapter since April, 28, 1995 when he was admitted to the Philippine Bar.

Jasper Alon, grand chancellor of FSL XU chapter, in a statement posted online, recognized the late lawyer as belonging to Batch 1989, and a former Public Attorney’s Office employee.

The fraternity extended its sympathies to bereaved family, claiming their departed comrade has become the 55th casualty among slain lawyers since July 2016.

While the FSL decried “these merciless and brutal killings of lawyers, prosecutors, judges, and justices,” it further portrayed “the attacks not only on the personal safety and security of individuals but also a blatant mockery to the country’s justice system.”

Capt. Francisco Sabud, spokesperson of the Police Regional Office 10, said Thursday evening that Intong was shot early morning that day at close range by unidentified motorcycle-riding-in-tandem at a sidewalk vegetable stand, just steps away from the victim’s house.

Intong was rushed to a local hospital but was declared dead-on-arrival at about 7:25 a.m., Sabud said.

One Romeo Balinguig Jr., 19, the vegetable vendor, sustained a gunshot wound but was cleared from danger.

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