Vigilante group not behind deaths of two suspected robbers
DAGUPAN City Police Station (DCPS) downplayed reports that a vigilante group is operating in the city.
P/Chief Inspector Marcos Anod, deputy police chief, said, the surveillance and monitoring by the station’s Intelligence Division showed no indication that a vigilante group is behind the latest killing involving two men who bore bullet wounds on their heads.
“Betrayal appears to be the motive behind the duo’s killing,” he said pointing to the two’s suspected involvement with a robbery group operating along the Dagupan- Mangaldan highway.
The two were identified by the police as Jeffrey Banaag, 33, of Sitio Barracks in Bonuan Boquig, and Jay-R Daoana, a resident of Bonuan Gueset.
Their bodies were found sprawled on a vacant lot early Tuesday morning by a resident when she happened to pass the area going to the beach front. She reported her discovery to a barangay official and who in turn informed the police.
The initial police investigation said a Rondick Zabala residing in the area adjacent of the road where the bodies were found, heard five gunshots around 11:30 p.m. of February 26.
Anod added the two were jobless and were reported to the police for indiscriminate firing, and there were reports that they were involved with a robbery group and betrayal appears to be the more plausible motive.
He said the victims have no record in illegal drugs.
“Sana lumabas yong mga nabiktima nila para ma-identify kung itong dalawa ay suspek sa robbery hold up,” Anod said.
Both men evidently died from gunshots in their heads.
Anod said that judging from the manner of their deaths, they suspect the two were salvaged, a euphemism for extra-judicial killing.
Recovered from the scene of the crime were two empty shells of Cal. 9mm and two empty shells of cal. 45 pistol. (Leonardo Micua/Nora Dominguez)
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