Bank client shot, robbed of P.1 million in Quezon City

MANILA, Philippines - A man who had just withdrawn P130,000 from a bank along Tomas Morato Avenue in Quezon City was shot dead by two robbers who fled with his money yesterday.

Rolly Humangit, 38, died while undergoing treatment at the St. Luke’s Medical Center, according to Superintendent Edgardo Pamittan, commander of the Quezon City Police District (QCPD) Station 11.

Pamittan said at around 1 p.m., Humangit and his father, Romeo, 64, were about to gas up their van at a gasoline station at the corner of E. Rodriguez Avenue when two men shot at them and grabbed the money they had just withdrawn. Romeo was injured shards of broken glass during the incident.

The robbers may have tailed them from the bank, according to Pamittan.

He said police officers from QCPD Station 7 arrested suspects Pedro de Leon and Ricky Cervantes, who were on a motorcycle, at the corner of Betty Go-Belmonte Street and Aurora Boulevard. They said De Leon was carrying a 9mm pistol.

According to Pamittan, the robbery had already been flashed to different units of the QCPD at that time and when the operatives of the QCPD-Station 7 brought the two suspects to the St. Luke’s Medical Center, the elder Humangit managed to identify both men as the same ones who robbed them.

Pamittan said the two suspects denied they were the ones who staged the robbery, but a witness tagged them as the ones who robbed the Humangits.

He said the stolen money was no longer with the suspects when they were apprehended but Pamittan believes the loot may have been passed on to men in an owner-type jeep seen tailing the suspects’ motorcycle.