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| Photo lifted from the Canadian Inquirer.Net |
I was browsing Facebook when I chanced upon the story of a visiting lawyer in Philadelphia who incidentally was a staff lawyer of detained outgoing Sen. Leila De Lima.
The 35 year old John Albert Laylo was apparently on board an Uber car with his mother at around 4:06 am, Philadelphia time when six gun shots were fired at him. Laylo and his mother were on their way to the airport to supposedly visit a relative in Chicago when the incident transpired.
It doesn't take an expert to determine that this was not just an incident of random shooting although the way the crime was orchestrated it would appear "hit-or-miss" shooting.
The shooting incident transpired in the wee hours of the morning, that it was hard to mislead it to another act of random violence. The assailant had made it obvious that the shots committed were specific only to Jal Laylo. Because except for the minor bruises caused by the shattered glass, no bullets was sustained by Mrs. Leah Bustamante Laylo nor the driver has been reported so far.
Therefore, it speaks clearly of the intention–to silence Jal Laylo. But why? For what reason? And who could be behind the operation?
I pray and hope that the US authorities and the Philippine Consulate Office will not let the case of Laylo add to the statistics of "cold cases" in Philadelphia.