24 March 2005
Marlenee Garcia Ezperat
Shooting
A columnist for a weekly newspaper became the third journalist murdered in the Philippines this year when she was shot dead in front of her children.
Marlenee Garcia Ezperat, 45, a columnist with the Midland Review in Tacurong City, Mindanao, was shot in the head. Police chief, Raul Supiter, told local media that gunmen had barged into Ezperat's house in the early evening and shot her once in the head. "We are still establishing the motive of the killing but we are not discounting it could have been due to her work," he was quoted as saying by the MindaNews. "She has been writing hard-hitting commentaries."
