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Published December 21, 2020, 8:21 AM A police sergeant whose cold-bloodied murder of a mother and her son in Paniqui, Tarlac, late Sunday afternoon which has gone viral in social media surrendered to the local police an hour after the shooting incident. A report reaching Camp Crame in Quezon City identified the suspect as Police Senior Master Sgt. Jonel Nuezca, 46, who is assigned at the Crime Laboratory based in Parañaque City. “The said suspect surrendered at their station (Rosales Municipal Police Station) with his issued firearm Beretta 9 mm with Serial Number M178132 which was used by the suspect in the commission of the crime,” the report read. ....
Vice President Leni Robredo (OVP / MANILA BULLETIN) In a statement, Robredo said that “there will be those who will lay all blame on the person who pulled the trigger, as if he were not part of a larger architecture of impunity.” “Despite a clear pattern of brutality and a string of cases that made his propensity for violence apparent, the leadership allowed him to remain in service: May tsapa, may baril (with badge and a gun),” Robredo said. On Monday morning, a viral video showed the suspect, Police Senior Master Sgt. Joel Nuezca, shot dead his two neighbors Sonya and Frank Anthony Gregorio after a verbal altercation over the victims’ use of “boga” or noisemaker in their hometown. ....
Cops are out of control; Duterte enabling police violence –HRW By JOVILAND RITA, GMA News Published December 21, 2020 4:40pm Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday said that many members of the Philippine National Police (PNP) are out of control after a police officer shot to death a mother and her son in Paniqui, Tarlac. In a statement, HRW deputy director in Asia Phil Robertson said the killing by Police Staff Sergeant Jonel Nuezca of Sonya Gregorio and Frank Anthony highlighted the prevailing attitude of impunity in the PNP. “The grim news today of a police officer in Tarlac, in the northern Philippines, shooting to death a mother and her son over a dispute about the use of a holiday noisemaker is just the latest incident to drive home this reality: many members of the Philippine police are simply out of control,” he said. ....
By ANNA FELICIA BAJO, GMA News Published December 21, 2020 12:18pm Updated December 21, 2020 12:23pm Interior Secretary Eduardo Año on Monday branded the shooting incident, involving a police officer, in Paniqui, Tarlac as murder. Año emphasized it was clear from the video, which caught the incident, that victims Sonya Rufino Gregorio and her son Frank Anthony Rufino Gregorio were not fighting Police Senior Master Sergeant Jonel Nuezca. That is plain, simple cold murder. napakalinaw naman na hindi lumalaban ang victims, Año told GMA News Online. The video showed that Sonya was even hugging her son Frank Anthony to prevent the latter from facing the policeman. ....
Police abuse trends in the Philippines after cop kills Tarlac woman, son Published December 21, 2020 8:14am Police abuse trended in the Philippines on Monday morning following an incident in Paniqui, Tarlac, where a policeman shot dead a mother and her son during a heated argument. The tweets were mostly calls to stop police abuse, condemnation of police brutality, and calls for justice to the victims in Tarlac. As of Monday morning, the top 5 trending topics in the Philippines were #StoptheKillingsPH (12.9K tweets), #PulisAngTerrorista (3,847), #EndPoliceBrutality (6,005), #JusticeforSonyaGregorio (2,353) and MY FATHER IS A POLICEMAN (17K). This happened after Police Senior Master Sergeant Jonel Nuezca, 46, shot dead Sonya Gregorio, 52, and her son Frank Anthony Gregorio, 25, during an altercation that reportedly stemmed from an issue involving right of way. ....