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Joey Luis Wee, 51, A lawyer was shot dead on November 23, 2020, by unidentified gunmen while he was walking to his office in Baragay Kasambagan, Cebu City. Attorney Joey Luis Wee, died from two gunshot wounds while he was being treated at a hospital. Initial police reports from Mabolo Police Station showed, that Wee had just stepped out of his car in front of Alchi Business Center at about 1:30pm, when the suspects, who were on board a motorcycle, shot him to death. The crime occurred almost a month after another lawyer in Cebu province, James Joseph Gupana, survived an ambush in Lapu-Lapu City. A young lawyer was also shot to death in Palawan, just as he was driving towards a court hearing. Wee’s family said that he was handling a few high profile cases prior to his death. A graduate of San Beda Law School, Wee was the counsel of former Rizal Palawan, Mayor Nicolas Montaño Sr., in the latter’s rape case. He also stood as the lawyer of former Department of Public Works and Highways officials ,who were allegedly behind the overpricing of lampposts that were installed for the 2007 Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit. He was also the lawyer of National Bureau of Investigation agents, who allegedly shot a van carrying several resort workers in Manddawwee City in 2003. The Integrated Bar of the Philippines Cebu City chapter condemned Wee’s slay.