Link between 2 killings probed

Authorities are looking into the possibility that the deaths of a policeman and an informant in Quezon City are related to a shootout which left a murder suspect dead.

Eral Fabi, 37, was killed Monday, a day after the policeman he provided with information, SPO1 Miguel Gayagoy Jr. of the Novaliches police station’s follow-up section, was shot dead.

Chief Insp. Rodelio Marcelo, head of the Quezon City Police District’s Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit, said Fabi may have tipped off policemen about a murder suspect, Akmad Silongan, who was killed in a shootout on Jan. 4 in Barangay (village)  Gulod.  Silongan, who was being sought for the murder of another man, reportedly shot it out with a police team whose members included Gayagoy.

“These killings could be related and in retaliation for the encounter that left Silongan dead,” Marcelo said.

On Sunday morning, Gayagoy was washing his van in Barangay Sta. Monica in Novaliches when he was approached by a man who shot him. He died on the spot due to  nine gunshot wounds in the head and body.

Around 3 a.m. Monday, Fabi was sleeping inside a passenger jeepney parked on Temple Street in Forest Hills Subdivision, Novaliches City, when he was shot repeatedly in the head by two men on a motorcycle.

Case investigator PO2 Hermogenes Capili said that some residents rushed the victim to a nearby hospital but he died of his wounds.