Press Release
August 4, 2017

STATEMENT OF SENATOR RICHARD J. GORDON ON THE KILLING OF FORMER MEDIA MAN MICHAEL MARASIGAN AND HIS BROTHER

I was terribly shattered by the murders of veteran journalist Michael Marasigan and his brother Christopher by still unidentified assassins on board a black motorcycle. Since we first met at my mother's house at the height of the Mount Pinatubo eruption in 1991, when I mistook him for a pastor, Mike and I had become good friends, exchanging advice and good thoughts, mostly through text messages, through the years.

I extend my deepest sympathies to the families of Mike and Christopher Marasigan. Mike is irreplaceable. A great media personality, fair critic and an in-depth writer.

The fact that investigators could not immediately identify and pursue the killers because witnesses could not decipher the motorcycle's plate number has further driven home the need to immediately impose bigger plate numbers for motorcycles. Hence, I am calling on the House of Representatives for the immediate passage of their version of Senate Bill No. 1397 or the Motorcycle Crime Prevention Act of 2017 so we could submit it to Malacanang for enactment into law. Preventing riding-in-tandem killings would ensure that the Marasigan brothers and all other victims of riding in tandem assassinations did not die in vain.

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