ILOILO – There are persons of interest in the killing of Police Corporal Felfranz Lumahang, according to Colonel Gilbert Gorero, Iloilo provincial police director.
Gorero did not name names so as not preempt their investigation. He only said manhunt operations against the suspects were ongoing.
“We are hoping for their arrest, and justice for the police officer,” Gorero told Panay News yesterday.
Lumahang, 32, was a member of the Iloilo Police Provincial Office’s Drug Enforcement Unit.
He was posing as a buyer of illegal drugs in an entrapment operation in Barangay Abilay, Oton, Iloilo when he was gunned down around 3:20 p.m. on Nov. 28.
The suspect sensed he was transacting with a police and peppered Lumahang with bullets.
The gunman fled onboard a motorcycle of a companion who served as lookout.
“Wala gid sya kapangaman sang tirohon sya. He sustained fatal gunshot wounds and was not able to fight back” Gorero said.
Two hours prior the shooting, Lumahang, along with officers of the Mandurriao police station, staged a buy-bust operation against Mary Lee Zaragoza of Barangay Bakhaw, Mandurriao, Iloilo City. They confiscated 12 sachets of shabu valued at around P80,000.
The police bought P19,500 worth of shabu from Zaragoza. She was brought to the police station for interrogation.
“After the interrogation, Lumahang conducted a follow-up operation in Oton where he was shot,” Gorero said./PN
