Kin of killed Narc agent wants NBI into case

The family of the 32-year-old Northern Police District anti-narcotics agent killed in a shootout with fellow policemen inside their office last week wanted the National Bureau of Investigation to investigate the case and refused to cooperate with other police investigating agency.

"We want the NBI to investigate my son’s case," Dolores Gaddi, 58, mother of PO3 Eduardo Gaddi, an NPD-Drug Enforcement Group agent who was shot to death by his own superior, Superintendent Reynaldo Orante, in an alleged "hostage-taking incident" on April 1 within the DEG office.

This came after the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, tasked by the Philippine National Police (PNP) headquarters in Camp Crame, to handle the investigation of Gaddi’s death, fell short of convincing the dead cop’s family to cooperate with the CIDG.

The CIDG was supposed to file over the weekend formal charges against Orante and his three other men, SPO4 Jorge Tabayag, Inspector Rodrigo Soriano and SPO3 Manolito Manalo, based on the complaint of Gaddi’s family.

"Not that we don’t trust you, but it’s the family’s decision," Gaddi’s mother told the two ranking CIDG officials who personally went to their residence in Dagat-Dagatan, Caloocan City and tried but failed to persuade them.

Gaddi was killed inside the DEG office on Langaray street in Dagat-Dagatan, Caloocan City at around 10:15 p.m. on April 1.

According to Orante, Gaddi resented it when he reassigned him to the Valenzuela City police the day before the incident. Orante said that the decision of transferring Gaddi to Valenzuela was not actually his, but that of NPD director Senior Superintendent Marcelino Franco Jr.

Gaddi, Orante said, went to their office where he first confronted Manalo. The confrontation resulted to a shootout when Gaddi allegedly tried to take Orante hostage.

Orante claimed he was forced to fire at Gaddi once in the chest and in the stomach in "self-defense."– Pete Laude