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Cebu City Legal Officer Rey Gealon (File photo)
+ April 23, 2021 THE Cebu City Government has withdrawn its promise to provide legal assistance to the family of Ritchie Nepomuceno, the woman who was gunned down weeks after accusing 11 policemen of rape and extortion.
Cebu City Legal Officer Rey Gealon said Friday, April 23, 2021, that they decided to retract after learning that the killing of Nepomuceno may have been related to illegal drugs.
“The mayor was under the impression that Nepomuceno was a victim of random killing. But police investigation showed that it may have been related to illegal drugs,” Gealon said.
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Published April 22, 2021, 2:47 PM
CEBU CITY – He was supposed to be under camp restriction but where was Police Staff Sgt. Celso Colita at the time when the woman who accused him of extortion and rape was killed?
BLOODY ENDING. Police Staff Sgt. Celso Colita was found slumped on the floor of a toilet where he allegedly shot himself in the head Monday night, April 19. (Photo courtesy of Benjie Talisic/MANILA BULLETIN)
Entry in the logbook of the Police Regional Office-Central Visayas (PRO 7) headquarters in Camp Sergio Osmena here showed that he was out on the day that Ritchie Nepomuceno was gunned down around 6 p.m. last Monday.
Mayor Edgardo Labella (Facebook / MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)
Labella said the killing of Ritchie Nepomuceno “has to be looked into relentlessly” by the National Police Commission (Napolcom).
Nepomuceno was gunned down by two motorcycle-riding assailants while standing by the road in Barangay Basak-Pardo Monday night. She was the woman who filed rape and extortion charges against 11 policemen from the Sawang Calero Police Station.
About three hours after Nepomuceno was killed, one of the accused policemen, Police Staff Sgt. Celso Colita, allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself in the head in the toilet in one of the offices of the Police Regional Office-Central Office headquarters in Camp Sergio Osmena here.
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