Man opens fire at university graduation ceremony, kills three

According to police, a gunman opened fire on a university campus in the Philippine capital region on Sunday, killing a former town mayor and two other people in a brazen attack ahead of a graduation ceremony, writes Jim Gomez for AP.

The suspect was armed with two pistols and a silencer and was captured in a car he commandeered trying to escape Ateneo de Manila University in suburban Quezon City, police said. He was blocked by witnesses and authorities outside the university gates. The sprawling university was put under lockdown and the graduation rite at the law school on campus was cancelled, police said.

Investigators were trying to determine a motive for the attack, but Quezon City police chief Brigadier General Remus Medina said the suspect, apparently a medical doctor, had a long-running feud with Rosita Furigay, a former mayor of Lamitan town in southern Basilan province. She died in the attack together with her aide and a university guard. Furigay’s daughter, who was supposed to attend the graduation, was wounded and taken to hospital, a police report said.
Full report on the Associated Press site