MANILA — A judge in the Philippine capital was fatally shot Wednesday in her office at Manila’s city hall, the authorities said, in a burst of violence that was notable even for a country where shootings are prevalent. In a statement, the mayor’s office identified the judge, who was shot on Wednesday afternoon in her fifth-floor office, as Maria Theresa Abadilla, 44, of the city’s Regional Trial Court. Judge Abadilla was taken to a hospital after the shooting and proclaimed dead on arrival, according to Major Jhun Bay of the Manila police and two doctors at the emergency department of Medical Center Manila. Amador Rebato, a 42-year-old attorney and chief clerk at the court, was in Judge Abadilla’s office when witnesses heard a gunshot ring out, the mayor’s office said, adding that Mr. Rebato was now a suspect in the case. The clerk shot himself after shooting Judge Abadilla, the police said; local reports said that he, too, had died..

Source: New York Times November 11, 2020 08:50 UTC