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Councilman Reynaldo Dagsa of Barangay, Philippines, was with his family soon after midnight on New Year’s Day. He took out his camera to take a photo of his family and inadvertently captured a man taking aim at him with a handgun. The councilman was shot in the chest and arm and was dead on arrival at the hospital.

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The photo he produced is an astonishing and unsettling look at what he saw moments before his own death. The Philippine Daily Inquirer even published it on its front page. Fortunately, his family was able to give the photo to police, who arrested a man named Michael Gonzales. Police say Gonzales was a suspected car thief that the councilman had previously sent to jail.