Lawyer shoots cop on New Year’s Day in N. Vizcaya
BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya – A 39-year-old lawyer of the Commission on Audit was arrested on New Year’s Day (Wednesday, January 1) after he allegedly shot at police officers who accosted him for illegal gun discharge in Nueva Vizcaya town of Solano.
Alvin Endrinal was reportedly drunk when he began firing his cal. 40 pistol outside his home at the Salgado Apartment in Purok Ilang-ilang, Barangay (village) Quirino at 2:30 a.m., according to Police Major Ferdinand Laudencia, Solano police chief.
Frightened neighbors called the police. But responding policemen took cover when Endrinal started shooting at them after they tried to pacify him.
Endrinal eventually surrendered to the police after relinquishing his gun to his live-in partner. He did not present his license to possess a firearm.
The lawyer is being charged for attempted murder, illegal discharge of a firearm and illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition. Villamor Visaya Jr. INQ
