A Quezon City court has ordered the arrest of a Manila policeman who has been linked to the killing of Mikael Troy Rasay, a Norwegian national, during a bar brawl in July this year.
Judge Henri Jean-Paul Inting of Regional Trial Court Branch 95 issued a warrant for Police Officer 1 Harold Meneses, who allegedly shot the 18-year-old victim.
Rasay was supposed to fly home only a few hours before he was killed.
The policeman, who is assigned to the Manila Police District, is facing a murder charge.
The crime is a nonbailable offense under the Revised Penal Code.
Meneses had sent surrender feelers after the incident, but nothing came out of it.
Rasay, of Philippine descent, was allegedly chased and shot from behind by the policeman after the teenager tried to mediate in a brawl in front of a bar on Timog Avenue in Barangay (village) South Triangle in Quezon City.
The policeman was identified by witnesses who saw him shoot Rasay.