The priest was preparing to return to the seminary in the village of Patpat, near Malaybalay, a city in the province of Bukidnon, on the island of Mindanao, in the southern Philippines, when he was attacked. He was forced to leave his vehicle and shot dead.

On the same evening,  the priests of the St. John XXIII College Seminary called the police, reporting that they heard several shots. The police confirmed that Fr. Regalado was killed in the vicinity of the seminary “with gunshots to his head”. His dead body was found near the gate of the Carmelite Monastery in Barangay Patpat, Malaybalay City.

Source: Fides.org