Investigators into the Tacloban City high school shooting say firearms used in the incident are linked to people and agencies beyond the suspects. The Philippine National Police (PNP) and Police Regional Office Eastern Visayas (PRO 8) report that two teenage suspects are in custody and that authorities recovered a .38 caliber revolver and a 9mm pistol from them. Police say the 9mm Glock was verified as belonging to, or being issued to, a policewoman assigned to PRO 8, who is identified as an aunt of one of the suspects. For the .38 revolver, the PNP says the serial number was traced to a Cebu City-based security agency, with information indicating the weapon was deployed in Bohol rather than in Tacloban. Separate reporting in the probe also cites investigators uncovering an unusual lead involving two firearms with the same serial number—one allegedly connected to a teenage suspect and another registered to the Cebu security agency and used in Bohol. Authorities further state that one suspect’s grandfather previously worked as a security guard for the agency associated with the registered firearm.
Tacloban school shooting guns traced to security agency and policewoman, PNP says
Investigators into the Tacloban City high school shooting say firearms used in the incident are linked to people and agencies beyond the suspects. The Philippine National Police (PNP) and Police Regio...
- PNP/PRO-8 report two teenage suspects are in custody after the Tacloban City high school shooting.
- Investigators recovered a .38 revolver and a 9mm pistol from the two suspects.
- The 9mm Glock is verified as belonging to or issued to a PRO-8 policewoman who is an aunt of one suspect.
- The .38 revolver’s serial number is traced to a Cebu City-based security agency, with the gun linked to deployment in Bohol rather than Tacloban.
- Investigators say they find an instance of two firearms bearing the same serial number, one tied to the suspects and another connected to the Cebu agency used in Bohol.
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Investigators probing the deadly school shooting in Tacloban City have uncovered an unusual lead: two separate firearms bearing the same serial number, one recovered from a teenage suspect and another registered to a Cebu City-based security agency and deployed in Bohol. Police Colonel Elmer Cinco, chief of the Regional Civil Security […]...Keep on reading: Tacloban shooting probe uncovers 2 guns with same serial number
2 months agoMANILA, Philippines — The serial number of the .38 caliber revolver allegedly used by the 15-year-old suspect in the fatal shooting at a Tacloban City high school was traced to another gun in Bohol, according to the Philippine National Police (PNP). “Through the serial number, it was traced to a security agency in Cebu,” PNP chief Gen. Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr. told reporters in a chance interview in Camp Crame on Wednesday. “When they were asked about the actual presence or where the gun was, it was traced in another province but not in Tacloban. [It was] in Bohol,” added […]...Keep on reading: Tacloban shooting: Gun’s serial number traced to another firearm
2 months agoMANILA, Philippines — One of the suspects in the Tacloban City school shooting has a grandfather who is a former security guard of an agency where one of the guns used in the attack was registered to, the Police Regional Office Eastern Visayas (PRO-8) said. The Philippine National Police (PNP) previously said it traced the .9mm pistol used by a 14-year-old suspect in the shooting to his aunt’s who is a PRO-8 personnel; and a .38 caliber revolver used by a 15-year-old suspect to a Cebu-based security agency. “The 15-year-old suspect’s grandfather is a former security guard at that agency,” […]...Keep on reading: Tacloban shooting: Suspect's grandpa worked at agency linked to gun
2 months agoMANILA, Philippines — Police investigators linked the guns used in the Tacloban school shooting to a Cebu City security agency and a policewoman who’s the aunt of one of the suspects. The Police Regional Office Eastern Visayas (PRO 8) recovered a caliber .38 revolver and a 9mm pistol from the two suspects, both teenagers, who are now in custody. “Upon verification, the 9mm Glock belongs or was issued to a policewoman assigned in PRO 8,” Col. Allen Rae Co said in Camp Crame on Monday afternoon, June 22. Co serves as the PNP’s public information chief. Tacloban City school shooting: […]...Keep on reading: Guns in Tacloban school shooting lead to cop, Cebu City security agency
2 months agoMANILA, Philippines — The firearms used in the shooting incident at a Tacloban City high school on Monday allegedly belonged to a policewoman who was one of the suspects’ aunt and a security agency, according to the Philippine National Police (PNP). Earlier, the Police Regional Office Eastern Visayas (PRO 8) said it recovered a caliber .38 revolver and a 9mm pistol from two suspects, who were minors. “Upon verification the 9mm Glock belongs or was issued to a policewoman assigned in PRO 8,” PNP public information chief Col. Allen Rae Co said in a press briefing in Camp Crame on […]...Keep on reading: Guns in Tacloban shooting belong to suspect’s cop aunt, security agency
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