KORONADAL CITY: Police are pursuing suspects in the fatal shooting of a vice mayoral aspirant in Tantangan, South Cotabato early Monday morning. Maj. Erika Vallejo, chief of the Tantangan municipal police station, said authorities are working to identify the attackers and establish a motive for the killing. According to Philippines News Agency, the victim, Jose Osorio, 58, was the former chief of Barangay Bukay Pait and a candidate for vice mayor next year under the slate of former Tantangan mayor Benjamin Figueroa. Relatives discovered the blooded Osorio inside his family's roadside eatery around 5:50 a.m. after hearing gunshots, Vallejo said. Responding police recovered six spent shells from the crime scene. Relatives told reporters that Osorio was well-regarded in his community, having served three consecutive terms in Bukay Pait. They said he had no known enemies.