Quezon City: Younger sister of actress Maritoni Fernandez has been shot dead in Quezon City before dawn on Sunday.
The body of British-Filipino Ma. Aurora Moynihan was found along Temple Drive near Giraffe Street in Barangay Ugong Norte at around 1:55 a.m, GMA News quoted police as saying.
Police Officer 1 Mark Vitto of the Quezon City Police District (QCPD) reportedly said a cardboard was found on Moynihan’s body, which says, “Drug pusher ng mga celebrities, kasunod na kayo!”
A report from Bam Alegre on GMA News TV’s Balitanghali said Moynihan sustained gunshot wounds from the chest area.
Vitto was quoted as saying that according to witnesses, Moynihan was brought to the area by unidentified men on board a silver Toyota Fortuner, and then they heard a series of gunshots.
The report said the suspects left Moynihan’s corpse on the side street and sped towards White Plains Subdivision. Police forensic investigators found five cartridges of caliber .40 bullets and four sachets of suspected shabu at the crime scene, the report said, adding that the family of the actress has yet to make a statement on the incident.
QCPD director Sr. Superintendent Guillermo Eleazar reportedly said investigators are determining if Moynihan’s killing was related to drugs.
Eleazar was quoted as saying that they have turned over the mobile phone recovered from Moynihan to the Philippine National Police’s Anti-Cybercrime Group.
He reportedly said they may get leads from the contents of the mobile phone.
The police official added that they were still looking witnesses and were checking the footage of CCTV cameras installed in the area where the victim was killed.
Moynihan’s family has assured their cooperation with the police, GMA News quoted him as saying.
