From the Manila Standard Today....
THE family of one of the three victims in last year’s rubout in Ortigas Center in Pasig City has asked the Office of the Ombudsman to act and prosecute the 10 members of the Traffic Management Group of the National Police involved in the shooting.
“A public office is a public trust. We believe that the policemen... who killed our brother in cold blood abused that public trust,” said Jennifer Manzano, elder sister of the slain Francis Xavier Manzano.
Accompanied by counsel Theodore Te, Manzano also urged Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez to order the Deputy Ombudsman for the Uniformed Services to conduct a speedy and impartial investigation.
On the evening of Nov.7, Manzano, Bryan Anthony Dulay and Philip Cu-Unjieng were killed in what TMG agents claimed to be a shootout with members of the Valle Verde Carnap Gang, which the victims’ families belied.
After conducting its own probe, the Commission on Human Rights concluded that there was a rubout.
The CHR said the TMG operatives executed the three men inside a rented Nissan Exalta along Garnet Street.
Footage of the incident from the UHF television station UNTV showed the police shooting at what appeared to be the lifeless suspects inside their bullet-riddled car.
The commission then recommended the filing of multiple murder charges against Senior Insp. Hansel Marantan, Senior Insp. Samson Belmonte, PO3 Lloyd Soria, PO3 Rizalito Ramos Jr., PO2 Dexter Pascua, Senior Insp. Henry Cerdon, PO2 Jesus Fermin, PO2 Sonny Robrigado, PO1 Fernando Rey Gapuz and PO1 Josel Rey Lucena, all members of Task Force Limbas. Florante S. Solmerin
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