NPD releases sketches of Malabon gunmen

The Northern Police District (NPD) came out yesterday with cartographic sketches of six of the eight suspects in Thursday’s ambush of a Malabon fish trader.

Senior Superintendent Moises "Kamagong" Guevarra, Malabon City police chief, said that the search for the suspects has been widened in coordination with other police districts and support groups in Metro Manila and adjacent provinces.

Four security aides of intended target Alicia Ordinario were killed as well as one of the gunmen.

"We will not stop until we get them," Guevarra told The STAR.

He said that several people, including the owner of the house in Barangay Catmon, where three of the fleeing suspects for- cibly entered to change their clothes, were invited at the police station.

Police also invited for questioning individuals who tried to claim the body of the still unidentified suspect from a funeral parlor last night.

Police said that the male suspects were 20 to 35 years old while a female suspect, who served as the lookout, was 35 to 40 years old.

At around 10:30 a.m. last Thursday, Ordinario, 51, was on her way home to Valenzuela City from the Malabon fish market when her cobalt blue Nissan Sentra and a black Hyundai Starex van acting as backup were waylaid at the intersection of Sanchez and M.H. del Pilar steets in Barangay Tenejeros.

The Sentra was riddled with at least 17 bullet holes, killing driver Benjamin Plopino and wounding Ordinario and her helper Rosenda Orantino.

The van carrying Ordinario’s bodyguards and relatives had 32 bullet holes. Aides Michael Gabat, Wilfredo Minlay, and one Jon-Jon were killed.

In the ensuing shootout one of the suspects was killed.