PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philippine government attorney was shot to death in an Uber while visiting Philadelphia, authorities said Sunday.
John Albert Laylo was on his way to Philadelphia International Airport with his mother to catch a flight and the Uber he was in stopped at a red light near the University of Pennsylvania around 4:10 a.m. Saturday, authorities said. .
Multiple shots were fired into the Uber from a black vehicle in the back, police said.
The black vehicle then drove past the Uber and more shots were fired, police said in a statement.
Laylo was shot in the back of the head and taken to a hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead on Sunday, police said.
There are no arrests and no weapons have been found in connection with the case, police said. Authorities did not speculate on a motive for the attack or say whether the attack was directed at Laylo, her mother or the Uber driver.
Homicide detectives have launched investigations and are looking to see if video cameras caught the incident.
The Philippine consulate general said the victim was a lawyer for his government, according to Philadelphia broadcaster KYW-TV.
It is unknown if the Uber driver and Laylo’s mother were injured. Her mother said Sunday on Facebook that she was hit by shrapnel and that she was on vacation with her 35-year-old son.
“I never imagined or dreamed that … our vacations would end like this!” Leah Bustamante Laylo wrote in a message accompanied by photos of her and her son visiting places in New York, Washington and Philadelphia.
“We traveled together and we were supposed to return home together! I’ll take him away soon in a coffin!”
Philadelphia and other large cities in the United States are seeing an increase in cases of gun violence.
On June 4, a gunfight left three dead and several wounded in the South Street entertainment district, about three miles from where the attack on Laylo took place.
–
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed without permission.
–
