Manhunt on for suspect in engineer’s rob-shooting

CAMP OLIVAS, Pampanga , Philippines   â€“ Police are hunting down one of the four men who shot and wounded a project engineer during a robbery in front of an elementary school in the City of San Fernando this province last Thursday.

In a text message, Senior Superintendent Oscar Albayalde, Pampanga police director, said one of the four robbers who took P245,000 from engineer Pedro Navarro has been identified by several witnesses.

Albayalde, however, refused to identify the suspect as a police team is now tracking him down.

“If we could arrest the identified suspect, then we could arrest his cohorts,” he said.

Four armed men onboard two motorcycles robbed Navarro in front of the San Fernando Elementary School as he had just withdrawn P245,000 from a Land Bank of the Philippines branch.

Albayalde said Navarro was to deliver the money to his project manager when he was robbed.

Fearing for his life, Navarro handed over the money. However, one of the suspects shot him in the right hand and left leg before fleeing, Albayalde said. 

Police recovered a deformed slug and a spent shell from a 9-mm handgun at the crime scene.

Navarro was rushed to the Makabali Memorial Hospital and later transferred to the San Fernandino Hospital.