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Cebu City Legal Officer Rey Gealon (File photo)
+ April 23, 2021 THE Cebu City Government has withdrawn the legal assistance it vowed to provide to the family of Ritchie Nepomuceno, the woman who was gunned down after filing a complaint against 11 cops of the Sawang Calero Police Station for alleged rape and extortion.
In an interview, Cebu City Legal Officer Rey Gealon said the Cebu City Government chose not to intervene anymore after receiving reports from the local police that Nepomuceno was allegedly involved in illegal drugs.
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Just a few days after Nepomuceno was gunned down, officials of the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) claimed that she was allegedly involved in a love triangle between her, a police officer, and a detained drug lord.
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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+ April 23, 2021 THE Cebu City Government has withdrawn its promise to provide legal assistance to the family of Ritchie Nepomuceno, the woman who was gunned down weeks after accusing 11 policemen of rape and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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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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HUSBAND’S GRIEF. Danilo Nepomuceno visits the wake of his wife, Ritchie, in Barangay Quiot on Wednesday, April 21, 2021, two days after Nepomuceno was shot to death by motorcycle-riding assailants. Danilo said Ritchie, 35, had sent him text messages on Monday morning, April 19, hours before the fatal attack in which she had asked if the two of them could mend the cracks in their relationship. / AMPER CAMPAÑA
+ April 21, 2021 CEBU City Mayor Edgardo Labella has promised to give legal assistance to the family of Ritchie Nepomuceno, the complainant against erring police officers who was gunned down on Monday night, April 19, 2021.
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