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BY MAE SINGUAY
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Wednesday, January 4, 2017
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BACOLOD City – The policeman who shot and killed a civilian on New Year’s Day in Hinoba-an, Negros Occidental was charged with murder.
Police Officer 1 Reagan Magracia was also relieved from his post in the municipal police station.
Senior Inspector Leomel Gonzaga, officer-in-charge of the Hinoba-an police station, said the case was filed yesterday at the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office here.
The shooting happened in Sitio Tabuc Suba, Barangay 1, Hinoba-an.
The 37-year-old Vicente Labanon of the same barangay died of a gunshot wound in the head.
Magracia remains detained in the lockup cell of the Hinoba-an police station.
He was automatically sacked after his detention, said Chief Inspector Dianne Grace Catedral, spokesperson for the Police Regional Office 18.
The policeman is also facing an administrative charge, said Catedral.
Gonzaga said the Provincial Internal Affairs Service of the Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office (not the Regional Internal Affairs Service, as earlier reported) is identifying the appropriate case.
Before the shooting, Magracia called his station to report that his brother-in-law, John Roll Caña, was attacked by Labanon at the Tupas Beach.
Magracia’s family was on excursion at the beach to celebrate the New Year.
Magracia, a resident of Barangay Bacuyangan, Hinoba-an, intervened, but when the Magracias were walking away from the beach, Labanon verbally threatened them, prompting the policeman to run after — and later shoot — the latter.
Labanon died on the spot, while Magracia turned himself in to the municipal police.
The officer also surrendered his service firearm, a .9mm Glock 17, with a magazine and 10 bullets./PN
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