A 19-YEAR-OLD man tagged in the robbery and killing of a Grade 8 student two months ago was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Pasig City early Friday morning.
According to a report to Senior Supt. Orlando Yebra Jr., the city police chief, five men on two motorbikes staged the attack on Chester Santos in Barangay Caniogan, where he also lived.
Danilo Reyes, a member of the barangay security force, recalled seeing Santos being chased by the assailants around 2:40 a.m. on Kagitingan Street and shot several times when cornered, the report added.
Senior Insp. Robert Garcia, chief of the police investigation unit, said Santos was included on their watch list of drug suspects and was also a known “snatcher” in the area.
Santos, a resident of Jacinto Street, Villa Susana, did not surrender when the police conducted Oplan Tokhang in Caniogan, Garcia said.
Oplan Tokhang refers to the antidrug campaign launched at the onset of the Duterte administration, wherein officers knock on the door of known drug users and pushers identified by village officials to make them come out in the open and be registered.
The surrenderers are asked to undergo drug tests, pledge to change their ways, and provide information to the police about their sources of drugs.
Santos had a homicide case pending in the city prosecutor’s office for robbing and stabbing 15-year-old Mark Geraldoy Santos (no relation), a Grade 8 student of Rizal High School on June 18, according to PO2 Damilo Damasco.
Three other suspects were charged for Mark Geraldoy’s death.