By PETE LAUDE and JERRY BOTIAL
The Philippine Star
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=126153

A tricycle operator used a van to repeatedly run over the chief of
Caloocan City North’s public safety and traffic management office
Wednesday morning.

Eufemio Rienoso Jr., 49, was manning traffic with his men on Deparo
Road in Deparo, Caloocan City North when a speeding blue Besta van
(WHU-762) hit him at around 10 a.m.

“Reports reaching me claimed that the van’s driver deliberately ran
his vehicle into Rienoso and when the victim fell, the driver stopped,
reversed his vehicle and ran him over again,” Mayor Enrico Echiverri
said.

The driver of the van was later identified as Eulogio Arellano, a
former bodyguard of a local politician.

Apolinar Trinidad, chief of North Caloocan City Hall community
relation office, said Rienoso could have earned Arellano’s ire after
his men impounded one of Arellano’s tricycles during an operation
against unregistered vehicles the other day in Deparo.

Arellano tried to persuade Rienoso to release his tricycle but the
victim turned him down, Trinidad said.

“Witnesses claimed that the incident was intentional. Rienoso suffered
severe head injuries and died while on his way to Bernardino Hospital
in Novaliches, Quezon City,” Trinidad said.

Echiverri said the van got stuck on the road’s soft shoulder a few
meters from the crime scene, and Arellano alighted from his vehicle
and fired a shot before fleeing on foot.

“I’m not sure whether the shot was intended for Rienoso or the suspect
just wanted to scare away bystanders,” he said.

Echiverri condemned Rienoso’s killing as a “barbaric act against a
dedicated public servant” and assured the victim’s family that he will
personally look into the incident.

He has directed city police Chief Superintendent William Macavinta to
dig deeper into the case.

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