Cop shot dead by robbers in Parañaque

A National Capital Regional Police Office (NCRPO) policeman was killed while his colleague was seriously wounded after they were shot by two men who robbed a medical representative of P.5 million in cash in Parañaque City Thursday.

Killed was Police Officer 1 Raymond Sula, assigned with the NCRPO-Light Reaction Unit (LRU). He was declared dead on arrival at the CommCare Medical Clinic due to six gunshot wounds in the body.

Undergoing treatment at the same hospital, also for multiple gunshot wounds, is PO1 Filomino Velasco, also of the NCRPO-LRU.

Inspector Ryan David of the Parañaque Police Community Precint 3 said the incident occurred at around 1 p.m. along Doña Soledad street in Better Living Subdivision, Barangay Don Bosco, Parañaque.

It was learned that the two policemen were riding in tandem on a police motorcycle on a convoy with another policeman who was riding alone on another motorcycle, when they noticed a robbery taking place several meters ahead.

The group saw two men ganging up on Dorothy Jane Blasé, 35, a medical representative of Glaxo Wellcome Philippines, who had successfully grabbed her sample case.

Sula and Velasco tried to chase the robbers who fled on board a motorcycle. But the backrider suddenly pulled out a gun and shot at the cops. Hit, the two policemen lost control of their motorcycle and crashed onto the pavement while the two robbers made good their escape. – Rainier Allan Ronda