Slain race car driver Enzo Pastor cremated, kin call for justice

Slain international racing champion Ferdinand "Enzo" Pastor was cremated Sunday in Taguig City, even as his relatives and friends reiterated their call for justice.

A report on GMA News TV's "Balitanghali" on Sunday showed the champion race car driver's loved ones adopting the hashtag #justice4enzo.

The report said Pastor's family is still trying to come to grips with what happened.



More than a week after Pastor was shot dead, authorities have yet to determine the motive for his killing, the report said.

Pastor was shot dead by motorcycle-riding men in Quezon City on June 12.

Pastor was driving a truck and had stopped at the corner of Visayas Avenue and Congressional Extension Avenue when a gunman approached and shot him, radio dzBB reported.

FLASH: Lalaki, pinagbabaril sa loob ng pick-up truck sa Visayas Ave. cor. Congressional Ave., Quezon City. | via @olanbola

— DZBB Super Radyo (@dzbb) June 12, 2014

A report by GMA News' Oscar Oida said Pastor was transporting a race car to Pampanga from Batangas when he stopped at a traffic light at 10 p.m.

Pastor succumbed to gunshot wounds in the head, neck and arms. Police recovered shells from a cal-.45 pistol from the crime scene.

Initial investigation showed the gunman "casually" walked to a motorcycle driven by a companion, then fled.

Pastor was the first Filipino to participate in the NASCAR Whelen Euroseries Open Championship race circuit.

Police are not discounting the possibility the killing could be related to the race.

Pastor had recently won the Asian V8 Racing Championship, and was about to join a race this July in Clark. — Joel Locsin/JDS, GMA News