MANILA, Philippines – (UPDATE) Police charged with obstruction of justice television news anchor Ted Failon and five others Thursday evening shortly after his wife died from complications due to a gunshot wound to the head, officials said.

The charge stemmed from the alleged failure of Failon, Teodoro Etong in real life, and his co-accused to immediately report the shooting incident at his home that fatally wounded his wife, Trinidad Etong, and for tampering with the crime scene.

Etong expired at the New Era General Hospital at 8:50 p.m. Thursday, due to complications from penetrating cranial missile injury, or a bullet wound to the head, her attending physician, Adonis Gascon, told reporters.

Over an hour after Etong died, police charged Failon, his sister-in-law Pamela Arteche, and house helpers Pacifico Apacible, Carlota Morbos, Wilfreda Bolliser, and Glen Palan before the Quezon City prosecutor’s office, said Senior Superintendent Franklin Mabanag, the city police’s criminal investigation chief.

Mabanag said Failon, who was at his wife’s death bed, was considered “at large” because he was not present during the inquest.

Arteche, Apacible, Mobos, Bolliser, and Palan were placed under police custody, but Arteche was allowed to go to see her sister at the hospital after the proceedings, Mabanag said.

Lawyer Alfred Molo, who represents all the accused except Failon, said his clients would post bail as soon as the court opens on Friday.

Gascon told reporters that there was a “less than five percent” chance for survival among patients who suffer gun shot wounds to the head.

Doctors tried to revive Etong for 15 minutes by applying electric shocks, he said.

The family was asked whether the doctors should continue with the emergency procedure, and they agreed to have it terminated upon seeing that the patient had “flat-lined,’’ he said.

Earlier, at around 8:15 p.m., Delfin Lee, a friend of Failon’s, told reporters that doctors had started performing ‘’emergency treatment’’ on Etong after a drop in her blood pressure.

“She took a turn for the worse at around 8:30 p.m. or earlier,’’ Gascon said.

Etong expired shortly after police said they would no longer force Failon to go to the Quezon City prosecutor’s office for inquest proceedings.

Before she died, Etong’s relatives at the hospital refused to submit her to a paraffin test, Mabanag said in an earlier interview with reporters.

A paraffin test determines whether or not there are traces of gunpowder on a person’s hand.

Failon claimed he discovered his wife bloodied inside their daughter’s bathroom on Tuesday.

The primetime news anchor underwent a paraffin test on Wednesday. The result was negative.

Mean Arteche went hysterical when informed of her sister’s death by telephone, saying she could not forgive police for taking them from her sister’s deathbed.

“Hindi ko kayo mapapatawad [I will never forgive you],” she told police.

She was with her sister, Pamela, at the Quezon City prosecutor’s office. With reports from Thea Alberto, INQUIRER.net; Nikko Dizon, Dona Pazzibugan, Kristine Alave, and Julie Aurelio, Philippine Daily Inquirer