PNP: Cop shot dead by colleague at NCRPO HQ was also stabbed

Philippine National Police headquarters in Camp Crame

MANILA, Philippines — The autopsy of slain police executive master sergeant (PEMS) Emmanuel De Asis revealed that he was not only shot dead but was also stabbed, according to the Philippine National Police (PNP).

According to Taguig City police’s report last Nov. 28, De Asis was allegedly gunned down and dismembered by police lieutenant colonel (PLTCOL) Roderick Pascua.

“Based on the official autopsy report, the cause of death was determined to be gunshot wounds and stab wounds… The gun wounds in the head and neck, then the multiple stab wounds were on the body,” PNP spokesperson Brig. Gen. Jean Fajardo said at a press briefing on Wednesday, Dec. 11.

“This would somehow give them (Taguig police) the impression that there is more [to the] story than what Lt. Col. Pascua is sharing [with] them,” she added.

Pascua, in an extrajudicial confession, initially told Taguig police that he caught De Asis in “intimate relations” with his wife in their apartment at the Married Officers’ Quarters (MOQ) in Camp Bagong Diwa, headquarters of the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO).

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According to Fajardo, Taguig police found the hacksaw believed to have been used to dismember De Asis’ body.

“The tool we believe was used to dismember the victim’s body was found in the back of their very MOQ apartment. A solution was applied to the tool that would indicate that there were blood stains on the hacksaw itself,” she added.

PNP said it was still checking for blood stains at the MOQ apartment.

When asked whether Pascua’s MOQ neighbors heard the supposed gunshot, Fajardo said: “It will be highly impossible for anyone not to hear the gunshot since the houses are side-by-side.”

According to the PNP spokesperson, both Pascua and his wife were placed under restrictive custody and transferred from the Taguig City Police Station to the NCRPO, as authorities were building up the murder raps against the couple.

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Moreover, Fajardo said police were working with De Asis’ son, who claimed on a social media post last Friday that the Pascuas conspired with 10 to 20 other individuals to kill his father.

Taguig police already forwarded murder complaints to the Department of Justice last Friday, said NCRPO Acting Regional Director Brig. Gen. Anthony Aberin.

Concerned units were also instructed to file administrative cases against the Pascua couple.

“Considering the gravity of the offense, the minimum penalty with this kind of offense is dismissal from the service. We want to assure the family: we will get to the bottom of this and this will not be tolerated by the PNP,” Fajardo said.