Doctor shot during his cigarette break

When they said smoking can kill you, they didn’t mean it this way.

“Dr. Noel Villacorta, who works for the New Bilibid Prison hospital, was killed in a street attack on Tuesday afternoon, Jan 7 in Muntinlupa City,” reports Jaymee T. Gamil in the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

Police said that Villacorta was having a cigarette break with a female doctor outside a canteen near Alabang Medical Center (where he worked part-time) at around 415pm when he was shot at least four times by an unidentified gunman.

According to the report, “Villacorta’s colleagues at the NBP hospital described him as a “low-profile” man who led a simple lifestyle and had no known enemies.”

The investigation is still ongoing.

 

 




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