Task Force created to probe fatal shooting of cop in Pangasinan

DAGUPAN CITY –– The Pangasinan provincial police on Monday created a special investigation task group to investigate the killing of a policeman in Sual town.

Responding police found Cpl. Reynald Reyes, 29, along the zigzag road of Sual after he supposedly figured in a motorcycle accident on Monday morning.

But it was learned later that Reyes had suffered gunshot wounds when he was taken to the Sual Primary Care-Infirmary.

The police said the nurses also discovered inside his helmet two slugs from an unknown caliber.

Reyes, a resident of Anda town, was a member of the special weapons and tactics (SWAT) team of Cordillera regional police.

The gunshot wounds were found in his head and left leg.

In Urdaneta City, another policeman was stabbed in the nape, while he was trying to restrain a suspect who was reportedly causing a commotion in Barangay Cayambanan.

Master Sergeant Edgar Allan Elegores, 37, was taken to a hospital while the suspect, Rex Mones, was arrested.

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