BY RUBY P SILUBRICO
ILOILO City – Sara, Iloilo mayor Neptali Salcedo’s policeman son who shot a man at the town’s public plaza has not reported to work.
Senior Police Office 1 Nerio Salcedo of the Regional Headquarters Support Group (RHSG) has been absent since Sept. 1 without notifying his superior, according to Superintendent Louis Garong, RHSG chief.
“Since he failed to file an official leave, we have to consider him absent without official leave (AWOL),” said Garong said in a radio interview.
Salcedo may be charged administratively, he added.
The policeman is currently under investigation for shooting Jonathan Cadellino of Barangay Domingo, Sara on Sept. 20.
Cadellino sustained a gunshot wound on his right foot.
The Iloilo Police Provincial Office is doing the probe.
“We want to know what really happened and if the policeman is administratively or criminally liable,” said Senior Superintendent Cornelio Salinas, provincial police director.
Cadellino, reportedly mentally unstable, appeared to be holding something inside his jacket while approaching Salcedo.
A suspicious Salcedo pulled out his gun then warned Cadellino to back off, but the man would not.
Salcedo claimed he had no plan to shoot Cadellino but accidentally pulled his gun’s trigger.
Salcedo reportedly surrendered to the Sara police station after bringing Cadellino to the hospital./PN
