Description: Aired (April 5, 2025): Noong March 20, 2025 sa Tandang Sora, Quezon City, isa namang pick-up driver ang namatay matapos pagbabarilin dahil sa simpleng gitgitan. Natuklasan na ang suspek, isa palang pulis. #ReportersNotebook.
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00:00What if the only person who has the right to carry a gun while the election gunman is being executed is the person himself in the life of an individual?
00:13On March 20, 2025, on a road in Tandansora, Quezon City, the life of 42-year-old Ronnie Borromeo ended.
00:23The criminal's head and tail were also found on the road.
00:27According to the investigation of the Quezon City Police District Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit or QCPD-CDU,
00:36a white closed van and a red minitruck with five passengers were hit by a car.
00:44The driver of the white closed van was hit first.
00:47The victim was on the way back to San Jose del Monte.
00:54They were from Bulacan.
00:56They came from Antipolo.
00:59Their business was serviced there.
01:02The police was also from the Commonwealth because that's where the Batasan Police Station is.
01:09On the right side, this is the police.
01:12On the left is the red minitruck.
01:16There was a heated altercation between the two.
01:21The police locked the red L300 and confronted the driver.
01:32When Ronnie arrived, he was stopped by a closed van.
01:36Then the driver got out of the car and fired bullets one after another.
01:40He went home with a gun.
01:42The driver was hit by multiple gunshot wounds.
01:49One of his passengers was injured.
01:55According to the investigation of the QCPD-CDU,
01:58an active police officer of the Batasan Police Station was driving a closed van.
02:02Ronnie was dead on arrival at the hospital.
02:05While one of his passengers, Roy, was injured.
02:08His real name is unknown.
02:14Two weeks after the incident,
02:16the reporter's notebook talked to Roy's son, Mark.
02:19His real name is also unknown.
02:21His father's condition is still critical in the intensive care unit of the East Avenue Medical Center.
02:28He was hit hard.
02:30It was hard for him to breathe.
02:32The bullet hit him.
02:34It hit his hand.
02:36His bone was injured.
02:39That's why cement was applied.
02:41The suspect immediately surrendered to the authorities.
02:45He was charged with murder and frustrated murder.
02:48In our resolution,
02:50the murder and frustrated murder were included.
02:54Because of the burst of fire,
02:57there were a lot of people.
02:59It was intent to kill.
03:01The hospital's expenses are increasing
03:04while they are facing charges against the suspect.
03:08It's a breadwinner for our family.
03:11It's hard for us to live on a daily basis.
03:13It's a necessity for us.
03:16He was immediately relieved from his position.
03:19But he was not dismissed because we have a process.
03:22In his admin case,
03:24there is a due process.
03:26He cannot be dismissed from being a police officer.
03:31We also tried to get hold of the suspect,
03:34but he refused to face the camera.
03:36But when he was arrested in the Quezon City Police District,
03:39he was pinched and stabbed in the neck with a steel pipe
03:44by the driver,
03:46so that he could shoot and kill the victim.
03:49Under Covenant Resolution No. 11067,
03:52it is strictly prohibited to carry a gun
03:55or any deadly weapon
03:57at the time of the election period.
04:00Anyone who is proven to be a traitor to the government
04:03may face up to 6 years in prison.
04:07If you have a license,
04:09but during the election period,
04:11Omnibus Election Code will apply.
04:13So with that, even if you have a license,
04:15you cannot bring it out to your house
04:18or to your place of business.
04:19So you can still have it,
04:21you can still retain that possession,
04:23you just cannot bring it out.
04:25The criminal lawyer, Atty. Chelsea Liao,
04:27also explained that
04:29for those who are exempted from the gun ban,
04:31like the police who were involved in the crime,
04:33aside from criminal cases,
04:35they will also face administrative cases.
04:38The written authority that COMELEC gives,
04:41for example, to PNP, AFP,
04:44but at the same time,
04:46this can only be used during
04:47when you are on duty.
04:49You can now enter
04:51in violation of the Omnibus Election Code
04:53and what you did to the person.
04:56He can also be dismissed from public office
04:59and he is no longer allowed
05:01to hold a position in the government.
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