Charges for frustrated homicide and homicide are set to be filed today before the Bacolod City Prosecutor’s Office against the policeman tagged in the fatal shooting of a banker and the injury of his son in Brgy. Estefania, Sunday.
The charges will be filed against Police Officer 2 Mauro Taleon, a member of the Provincial Mobile Group, Station 4 commander, Chief Insp. Adonis Rosales said.
Rosales said they are now waiting for the results of the paraffin test conducted on Taleon and of the ballistic examination conducted on his gun, which will be used as additional evidence against him.
He said Taleon’s companions, Police Officer 2 Eric Moncal, Police Officers 1 Gary Sarap and Adrian Desendario, will not be included in the charges as their participation in the killing has not been established, but their firearms were surrendered to Police Station 4.
Jonel Ealdama, 49, of Camingawan, Brgy. Estefania sustained a gunshot wound on his left side and the bullet hit his heart. He was rushed to the Bacolod Doctors Hospital but was declared dead, while his son Karl, 16, was treated at the same hospital for a gunshot that hit his left hand and abdomen.
Ealdama was employed by the Development Bank of the Philippines at the time of his death.
He and his son were reportedly talking near the 4Ps convenience store beside the Petron Gasoline station when Taleon, who just came out of the establishment, asked the victim to keep quiet, investigation showed.
An argument occurred between the victim and Taleon, who took his gun and shot the younger Ealdama and his father, who tried to seek help, an investigation also showed.
Rosales said that there was a closed circuit television camera at the convenience store but it only showed Taleon, who was in his police athletics uniform, entering to purchase a bottle of beer but the shooting incident was not captured.
Lawyer Jonathan Ealdama, brother of the victim, said in a television interview that they are determined to file charges against the policeman.
He also lamented that the NOPPO policemen did not respond immediately after the shooting despite the proximity of their headquarters to the area where his brother was killed.
The victim’s family is also set to file complaints against the policeman before the Department of Interior and Local Government.*APN
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Chief Supt. Cipriano Querol, regional police director of Western Visayas, yesterday ordered that the summary dismissal proceedings be immediately conducted against Taleon.
Should it there were enough evidences against him, they will be ground for his dismissal from the police service,Querol said.
Querol assured the family of the victim that he will personally monitor the development of the case.
Senior Supt. Allan Guisihan, provincial police director of Negros Occidental, also assured that there will no whitewash in their investigation of the incident.*GPB
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