Wanted man dies in Lapu shootout
One of Lapu-Lapu City’s most wanted persons was chased and gunned down by policemen yesterday in a shootout in barangay Mactan.
Alex Oyao suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was declared dead at the Lapu-Lapu City Hospital.
Policemen said they rushed to a cockfight in sitio Ka Konsor after receiving a tip that the drug suspect was seen there.
Around 5 p.m., officers spotted Oyao and approached him but he fled after noticing their presence.
Oyao fired at the chasing police until he was cornered at the house of Oscar Eyas.
Chief Insp. Conrado Manatad of the Mactan police station said he called on Oyao to surrender but the suspect answered that he won’t let them catch him alive. A warrant of arrest was issued against Oyao by Lapu-Lapu City Executive Judge Toribio Quiwag for violation of the Republic Act 9165.
Police said Oyao briefly held hostage Eyas’ wife but let her go when he again started firing at the policemen. Oyao was shot during the exchange of gunfire. Police said they recovered a .45-caliber pistol with three live ammunition. He had been eluding authorities for more than a year after being wanted on illegal drug charges.
He was tagged a suspect in last month’s shooting and wounding of Jason Pejana in Mactan.
Police said Oyao was involved in several drug-related shootings in Lapu-Lapu City but that no one came forward to complain.
In February, Chief Insp. Michael Anthony Bastes of the Mandaue City police and his men pursued Oyao in barangay Casuntingan but he evaded arrest. /CORRESPONDENT NORMAN V. MENDOZA
