There's another murder on San Pedro to report tonight - and again it appears to be an execution attempt. Last night at around 8:30 22 yr old Edgar Rene Lopez and Rudolph Pitts were ambushed and fired upon by three men. Lopez was grazed to the head, but Pitts was unaccounted for. He was found dead at 2:00 this afternoon. This evening superintendent of police and the Deputy Officer Commanding Eastern Division, Raymundo Reyes shared an update.
Supt. Raymundo Reyes, Deputy OC - Eastern Division
"San Pedro police received a call via the emergency line and as a result they visited the San Pedro Polyclinic where they saw a male persons suffering from what appeared to be gunshot wounds to the left side of the head and to the upper left arm. The person name learned to be Edgar Lopez, 22 years old a caretaker and a resident of mile ten north of San Pedro. He was treated and then transported to the K.H.M.H. in a stable condition. The information obtained during an interview with him last night is that he was walking along with his friend one Rudolph Eric Pitts on a back road near the Bright Waters Resort when they were approached by three male persons who came out from nearby bushes and fired shots at their direction. He managed to run and he was later assisted to the polyclinic. Today at one-fifty p.m., based on the information that was provided by Lopez, police searched the area and as a result they came cross the body of a male person who was later identified as Rudolph Pitts, a thirty-six-year-old caretaker of the same address, with what appeared to be gunshot wounds to the body. It was observed that Pitts sustained four gunshot wounds to his body."
Police have not found any suspects as yet. They continue to investigate.
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