Dismissed SAF Marvin Evangelista, 42, of Sarmiento Street, Barangay (village) Sta. Monica in Novaliches died instantly from multiple bullet wounds when he tried to shoot it out with a platoon of his former colleagues at the Quezon City Police District’s Novaliches station and an augmentation force from the National Capital Region Police Office Public Safety Battalion.
The policemen happened to be in formation at the time, all armed and ready for deployment.
Evangelista was trying to escape after shooting dead 57-year-old Antonio Dizon of Azul Street, Villa Verde Subdivision, Barangay Sta. Monica in Novaliches, when he ran into the policemen. A maintenance man at the Our Lady of Mercy Parish, Artemio Putot, was hit by a stray bullet in the left arm and was taken to the Novaliches General Hospital for treatment.
Inspector Elmer Monsalve, head of the crime against persons section of the QCPD Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit, said that the incident happened around 4 p.m. Tuesday at the corner of Quirino Highway and Dumalay Street in Barangay Sta. Monica in Novaliches.
According to Monsalve Evangelista shot Dizon, with whom he had a fight earlier, twice in the head with a .45-caliberpistol and fled on a motorcycle.
Apparently unknown to the former SAF man, QCPD Novaliches station commander Supt. Norberto Babagay was briefing his men and members of the NCRPO Public Safety Battalion nearby before their deployment in the area. The policemen in formation were alarmed by the gunfire and people shouting and pointing at the fleeing Evangelista as the shooter.
Babagay immediately led his men to where the shots had come from and encountered the fleeing gunman. When the station commander directed Evangelista to surrender, the ex-SAF man ignored the order and fired at the policemen, who were forced to retaliate.
Evangelista died instantly from multiple bullet wounds in the head and body while bystander Putot was hit by a stray bullet. The policemen rushed both the former SAF man’s victim and Putot to the Novaliches General Hospital but Dizon succumbed to two gunshot wounds in the head.
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