Shoot-to-kill order issued for cop in Binondo robbery

A shoot-to-kill order has been issued  against a policeman charged with staging a robbery last week where a Chinese woman was killed and two of her kin were wounded.

The order was issued by Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim in case PO1 Ernesto Binayug Jr.,   who has been tagged as “armed and dangerous,” would resist arrest.

Binayug, who has only been in the service for two years and was  assigned at  the National Capital Region Police Office Regional Police Safety Battalion, is a cousin of former MPD Asuncion police station community precinct commander Insp. Joselito Binayug.

Ernesto Binayug and three other men were identified as the motorcycle-riding robbers who allegedly tried to rob  businesswoman Heidi Hsu in Binondo on Jan. 11.

Hsu was shot dead, while  her younger brother Herbert and 67-year-old father Tony  were wounded when they came to her aid.

The policeman was identified after he was seen in a closed circuit television  camera footage of the group’s flight from the crime scene.

He is also a suspect in the robbery at the Hsu family’s onion wholesale and retail store in November last year.

“We are asking him to surrender as promised by his mother, but he has not surfaced since Thursday,” Lim  told reporters in a press conference yesterday.

Tracker teams that have fanned out to different areas looking for the suspect said Binayug had not been going home and no longer reports for duty.

Apart from Binayug, Lim included his three alleged  cohorts in his “shoot-to-kill order,” in case of armed resistance.

Two of them remain unidentified while the other was identified only through his alias “Mac.”