Hinigaran police chief shot

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Wednesday, March 21, 2018
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BACOLOD City – The chief of police of Hinigaran, Negros Occidental had been shot.

Chief Inspector Jake Barila was fired at in Hacienda Manucao, Barangay Palayog, Hinigaran at around 12:45 p.m. yesterday while negotiating the surrender of an armed resident, said the Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office (Noppo).

Barila was confined at the Riverside Medical Center in this capital city and already in a stable condition, the Noppo said.

The resident – Dabi De Ysasi – fired at Barila. And then a trade of gunshots ensued.

Where Barila was hit was not immediately clear – Noppo director Senior Superintendent Rodolfo Castil said it was on the left thigh while Police Regional Office 6 spokesman Superintendent Gilbert Gorero said it was on the stomach.

At around 9:15 a.m., his sister Marie called the Hinigaran police station to report that De Ysasi threatened to shoot people to death using his .45 pistol if their mother Victoria would not give him money. She said De Ysasi mauled their mother, too.

Barila and his officers who rushed to the village found De Ysasi discharging his firearm.

After De Ysasi shot him, Barila fired back, hitting the former on the chest, police said.

Now wounded, De Ysasi hid in his bedroom while the responding officers called for backup from the 2nd Maneuver Platoon of the Provincial Mobile Company based in Hinigaran led by Chief Inspector Noel Garingalao.

Officers continued to negotiate until De Ysasi surrendered, Garingalao told Panay News.

“We went inside the suspect’s bedroom and found him slumped in a corner, still clutching his firearm but already weak,” Garingalao said. “We discovered that he was wearing a bulletproof vest but a bullet pierced through it.”

Records from the Hinigaran police station showed that De Ysasi was a newly identified drug personality.

The Noppo said De Ysasi sustained two gunshot wounds on the chest.

He was brought to the Hinigaran Emergency Clinic and later transferred to the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital in this city. He was already in a stable condition, said the Noppo.

Officers found in his bedroom five links of 30-caliber machine gun ammunition, one link of a 50-caliber machine gun ammunition, a bipod for an M60 machine gun, a Kevlar helmet, his .45 pistol and several empty shells of the same caliber, the bulletproof vest, and several other ammunition, the Noppo said. (With Cyrus Garde/PN)
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