Trike driver in alleged robbery killed in shootout with Davao City cops 

 

DAVAO CITY – A tricycle driver who  allegedly robbed a female college student was shot dead in a shootout with the police here Saturday night.

Mark Pabellon, 29, succumbed to gunshot wounds in Barangay Bato, Toril District at around 9:45 p.m., according to Maj. Catherine Dela Rey, Davao City Police Office spokesperson.

Dela Rey said the operation against Pabellon, a resident of Brgy. Crossing Bayabas, Toril, and  driver of a tricycle contraption locally known as payong-payong, was hatched after a 24-year-old student of Rizal Memorial Colleges reported to Toril police station past 8 p.m. that he held her up at gunpoint while on her way home.

The victim alleged that the suspect forcibly took her bag containing identification cards, receipts, a mobile phone and P3,185 cash, before speeding off.

The suspect allegedly refused to surrender to pursuing police officers and instead pulled out a handgun and opened fire, triggering the  brief gunfight, Dela Rey said.

Pabellon died upon arrival at a local hospital.

Recovered at the scene were the student’s bag and its contents, a loaded caliber .38 revolver and ammunition.  Six sachets of shabu were likewise recovered from the slain suspect.

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