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Date: 20 October 2010
Source: http://globalnation.inquirer.net/cebudailynews/metro/view/20101022-299108/Police-official--linked-to-Labangon-shooting

A police official was identified by a witness as the one who fired a gun in a shooting incident in barangay Labangon, Cebu City on Wednesday night.

But Chief Insp. George Ylanan, chief of the Investigation and Detective Management Branch (IDMB) of the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO), denied the allegations, saying he was asleep at home when the incident occurred.

Antonio Maraviles, a resident in the barangay, was wounded in the incident.

Maraviles said he failed to recognize the man who fired the gun since the area was dark.

Maraviles suffered bullet splinter wounds in the head and the back.

A report by GMA-7 Balitang Bisdak said a man identified Ylanan as the one who fired the gun.

The witness, who asked not to be named, said he was sure that it was Ylanan since he knew the policeman being a long-time resident in the area where Ylanan previously lived.

According to the report, a group of men were talking by the roadside when two men believed to be policemen arrived and fired a shot.

The men scampered off.

Maraviles reported the incident at the barangay hall.

The witness said Ylanan was drunk during the incident.

Ylanan denied this, saying he is prohibited from drinking alcoholic drinks after he underwent a major surgery to treat a gunshot wound in his abdomen five months ago.

Ylanan said he was willing to undergo a paraffin test to find out if he had recently fired a gun.

If there’s any, the policeman challenged the complainant to accompany him during the test so he could make his counter charges if the test shows that he is negative of powder burns.

Ylanan said he suspected that bystanders fabricated the story to implicate him in the shooting because of the several arrests conducted by the IDMB on members of the Crips and Bloods gangs in the area.