Cops sued for killing of Calbayog mayor

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RONALD Mark Aquino, the son of slain Calbayog City mayor Ronald Aquino, has filed administrative cases before the National Police Commission against the policemen allegedly involved in the killing of his father last March.

Aquino filed cases of grave misconduct and unbecoming of a police officer against Lt. Col. Harry Sucayre, Major Shyrille Tan, Capt. Dino Goles, Lt. Julio Armeza Jr., Staff Sgt. Neil Matarum, Staff Sgt. Edsel Omega, and police officers Nino Salem, Julius Garcia, and Randy Merelos.

Also included in the charges under the principle of command responsibility were Brig. Gen. Thomas Frias, PNP Integrity Monitoring Enforcement Group chief; Brig. Gen. Ronaldo de Jesus, Eastern Visayas Police Regional Office director; and Col. Glenn Oliver Cinco, Samar Police Provincial Office director.

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The National Bureau of Investigation had filed murder and frustrated murder charges against Sucayre, Tan, Goles, Armeza, Matarum, Omega, Salem, Garcia, and Merelos before the Department of Justice. They are now under restrictive custody.

Aquino, 59, who was on his third and last term as Calbayog City mayor, was with aides aboard their vehicle heading to the birthday party of Ronald Mark when they figured in an alleged shootout with the cops detailed with the PNP-IMEG and the local police on March 8.

Reports said it was the mayor’s convoy that fired the first shot on the cops on suspicion that they were being tailed by criminals, leading to a brief gun battle.

Aside from Aquino, also killed were two cops from the Samar Police Provincial Office, a policeman assigned to escort the mayor, and a civilian. Two were injured, including the mayor’s aide and a police officer.

Police Master Sgt. Jose Jay Senario admitted in a recent Senate hearing that he made up stories to implicate Mayor Aquino to illegal drugs apparently on the orders of a certain “Mon-Mon Uy,” who was later identified as Reymundo Uy, a former Calbayog City councilor who is a political rival of Aquino.

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