Robbery suspect killed in Pasay drug raid

A 21-year-old man released from jail last year was killed by antinarcotics policemen in Pasay City on Tuesday.

In a report submitted to Chief Supt. Tomas Apolinario Jr., Southern Police District director, members of the Pasay police’s Station Drug Enforcement Team (SDET) raided Aries Lumanlan’s house at 35 Saint Cecille St. in Barangay 179, Maricaban, around 2:30 a.m.

This was after they received a tip that there was an ongoing drug session inside the house.

The police report said several people inside the house escaped but Lumanlan drew a .38-caliber revolver and attempted to shoot it out with the team.

One of the policemen identified as PO3 Carlo Sison was able to grab Lumanlan’s firearm, leading to a scuffle.

Suspect a threat

But SDET leader Senior Insp. Maynard Pascual, “upon seeing the resistance from the determined suspect and sensing their lives [were] in imminent danger,” shot Lumanlan.

Sison also fired at the suspect, said Senior Insp. Wilfredo Sangel, chief of investigation of the Pasay police.

Lumanlan was brought to Pasay City General Hospital where he died at 2:55 a.m. due to three gunshot wounds.

Recovered from him were his gun and several sachets of drugs, two of them containing “shabu” or crystal meth worth P6,000.

Sangel said that Lumanlan had a police record for his involvement in drugs and robbery-holdup cases. He was arrested in July 2017 on robbery charges although he was later released.