OLONGAPO CITY—A suspected drug peddler was killed here on Friday (Aug. 5) after he reportedly tried to engage police authorities in a gunfight, police said.
Acting on information that Eduardo Gonzales, 47, was seen selling shabu (methamphetamine hydrochloride) at a street corner in Barangay (village) Barretto, the police approached the suspect at 9 p.m. prompting Gonzales to fire at them, said PO2 Ernest John Almares, investigator at police station 6, in a report.
The policemen fired back killing Gonzales on the spot. He is the seventh fatality in the police’s anti-illegal drugs operations in the city since July 1.
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Police recovered the suspect’s loaded revolver and four transparent plastic sachets containing suspected shabu.
The suspect was among the confessed drug dependents who took part in a mass surrender ceremony recently, police said.