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.
SunStar April 21, 2021 No good will come to anyone who gets involved in criminal activities, whether directly or indirectly.
It’s a sweeping statement, I know. And I do apologize for getting on my moral high horse yet again, but I can’t help it after reading about the fate of the woman who complained against members of the Sawang Calero Police Station.
I won’t name her in deference to her two children and her husband, who, according to news reports, she was texting on the night she was shot dead in Barangay Basak Pardo, Cebu City on Monday, April 19, 2021, by two men riding in tandem.
SunStar Erring Sawang cops suer declined security protection
CEBU. Body of Ritchie Nepomuceno who was shot dead Monday night, April 19, 2021, in Barangay Basak Pardo, Cebu City. (Contributed photo by Tiffany Obsioma Lim)
+ April 20, 2021 THE slain complainant against the alleged erring 11 police officers formerly assigned at the Sawang Calero Police Station did not avail herself of a security detail from the witness protection program despite receiving death threats after she sought help from the Commission on Human Rights 7 on her case.
Victim Ritchie Nepomuceno, 35, was a bit of complacent when it came to her personal security after the Police Integrity Monitoring and Enforcement Group (IMEG) Visayas Field Unit filed the criminal charges against the police officers, said Leo Villarino, chief investigator of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) 7.
Woman who accused Cebu cops of rape gunned down; police officer later dies by suicide
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Cebu City (CNN Philippines, April 20) A police officer being investigated for alleged rape and extortion took his own life on Monday, hours after his female accuser was fatally shot in Cebu City.
Ritchie Nepomuceno accused Police Staff Sergeant Celso Colita of raping her twice in a Cebu City motel in March.
She also filed criminal complaints against Colita and 10 other police officers assigned to the Sawang Calero Police precinct for extorting ₱170,000 from her.
The complainant also claimed the policemen tortured arrested suspects in a secret detention cell inside the precinct.
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