The Manila police on Friday killed a man who they said fired at the officers who saw him urinating in public and wanted to question him for having a gun tucked in his waistband.
Supt. Aquino Olivar, commander of Manila Police District Station 4 in Sampaloc, said the still-unidentified fatality was found keeping a packet of “shabu” and two strips of aluminum foil in his coin purse.
According to Olivar, his men were patrolling Laon-Laan Street in Sampaloc when they spotted the man relieving himself on the sidewalk around 2:30 a.m.
Noticing that the man was armed, the officers approached him, he said. But “sensing their presence,” he drew his firearm and shot at the policemen, Olivar said in his report.
The man then ran toward Concepcion Street but continued shooting at the officers, who fired back and hit him.
“After a brief chase and continuous armed confrontation, (the suspect) was found lying lifeless in front of a house on Concepcion Street,” Olivar said.
Aside from the drug, recovered from the man was a loaded .38-caliber revolver.
The slim, tattooed man was described to be in his mid-20s and was wearing a black and purple jacket, a yellow shirt and brown capri pants.