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Ombud OKs murder raps v. Dumpit
A CRIMINAL case for murder awaits Cebu City policeman Adonis Dumpit for the 2004 death of 17-year-old Ronron Go, the robbery suspect he allegedly shot.
Tanodbayan Merceditas Gutierrez approved the filing of a murder case upon the recommendation of the Deputy
Ombudsman for the Military and Law Enforcement Offices, and endorsed the case records to Cebu City Prosecutor Nicolas Sellon last week for filing with the Regional Trial Court (RTC).
“They will file it. They will also take charge of prosecution. We can also assign our own prosecutors to handle the case,” said Assistant Ombudsman Virginia Santiago in a separate interview.
Dumpit, who has figured in “excessive force” shooting allegations in the past, was at the RTC Criminal Division yesterday. A clerk confirmed the policeman inquired whether or not the case had already been docketed.
Sun.Star Cebu also checked and found out that the records of the case have yet to reach Sellon’s office.
“Sometimes mailing takes a week,” said Joy, Sellon’s secretary.
The filing of the case with the RTC leads to its raffling and the issuance of a warrant of arrest.
If enforced, Dumpit will be detained while awaiting trial unless he submits a petition for bail and, during hearing, convinces the judge that the prosecution’s entire case against him is weak.
Santiago confirmed that the records of the case passed by her office last week but refused to discuss details, saying it wasn’t her investigation.
Go was shot last Dec. 14, 2004 in Barangay Tejero, where Dumpit lives, after allegedly robbing two jeepney passengers in the North Reclamation Area. He was also identified as one of those who robbed a 14-year-old girl earlier that day.
Affidavits
The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) investigated the case and secured affidavits.
According to one issued by Dumpit’s colleagues—SPO4 Eddie Casas and PO3 Conrado Alega of the Cebu City Swat Team—the robbery indeed took place and resulted in a chase between them and Go’s alleged cohort, another 17-year-old boy.
The boy was eventually caught. But Go, Casas and Alega said, took a different route and ended up at the hands of Dumpit who was off-duty but who had received the dispatch and decided to help, as he knew the alleys of the barangay better.
In his affidavit, Dumpit said he fired because he was fired at by another one of Go’s cohorts, a certain Junjun Bador.
Dumpit said he heard another shot while seeking cover.
The policeman said that when he returned fire, Go had suddenly blocked Bador as the two were running in the same direction.
“While Ronron Go was running, he pointed his gun at me, ready to fire, which forced me to shoot to disable him,” he said.
Dumpit said Bador fled upon seeing Go fall. Go was then taken to the hospital.
During the incident, a bystander identified as Jimmy Villacruz was hit by a stray bullet in the stomach.
The NBI, however, found basis to indict Dumpit before the Office of the Ombudsman.
Special Investigator Arnel Pura said the fact that Go was wounded in the back indicated there was no shootout.
Also, Pura said, Go tested negative of gunshot residue and that Dumpit failed to state in his affidavit that he recovered a firearm from the guy he supposedly shot in self-defense. (KNR)
Source: Ombud OKs murder raps v. Dumpit | Sun.Star Network Online



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