Tacloban City: A Municipal Trial Court Judge of Northern Samar who survived an ambush in May this year succumbed to a single bullet from a gunman who shot him at close range inside a cockpit arena in Pambujan town late Sunday afternoon.

Judge Reynaldo Espinar, 53, was at Padcor Cockpit arena in Brgy. 8, with his security escort identified as Wilfredo Sarominez, when the suspect came close and shot him at the back of his head.

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