Ex-cop suspect in Maguindanao massacre injured in shootout
KIDAPAWAN CITY, Cotabato—A former police officer wanted for his alleged involvement in the 2009 Maguindanao massacre was wounded in a shootout with lawmen out to arrest him in Pikit, North Cotabato on Tuesday, police confirmed Thursday.
Chief Inspector Donald Cabigas, the Pikit town police chief, said the local police were to serve the arrest warrant issued by Judge Jocelyn Solis Reyes of RTC-221 in Quezon City against former PO1 Jonathan Engid for the death of over 50 people, 32 of them journalists, in Ampatuan town in November 2009 when he resisted and opened fire on approaching lawmen.
Cabigas said Engid was critically injured and rushed by police to the North Cotabato provincial hospital.
Engid was the 122nd suspect charged before RTC-122 for involvement in the country’s worst election related violence that claimed 58 lives.
More than 70 other suspects remained at large to this day.
Cabigas said the suspect was under close watch by police while he remained in the hospital./rga
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