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Date: 23 June 2010
Source: http://ph.news.yahoo.com/gma/20100623/tph-seaman-s-suspected-killer-shot-dead-d6cd5cf.html

A suspect in the robbery-killing of a seaman in Manila last week was shot dead Wednesday night, while supposedly being taken to the prosecutor’s office for inquest.

But while police suspect Ronald Sevilla was shot while trying to “escape,” his parents suspect he may have been salvaged, or summarily executed.

“Nakita ko may tama tatlong beses sa ulo …binaril ng pulis (I saw that he had three gunshot wounds in the head. The police deliberately shot him),” Sevilla’s mother Corazon said, in an interview aired on dzBB radio early Thursday.

Mrs. Sevilla said her son was brought out of the Manila Police District (MPD) Station 5 at about 4 p.m. to undergo inquest at the Manila City Hall.

The younger Sevilla was arrested hours earlier for the robbery-killing of seaman Edralin Amon, 49, Thrusday last week. [See: Cops close in on seaman’s robber-killers via CCTV]

But when he failed to return after five hours, Mrs. Sevilla asked her husband go to City Hall to check on their son.

She said they later learned Ronald was rushed to the Philippine General Hospital following an “accident.” Ronald died at about 10 p.m. Wednesday, the dzBB report said.

“Naaksidente, sabi ng pulis (Police claimed it was an accident),” Mrs. Sevilla said.

For his part, MPD deputy for operations Senior Superintendent Fidel Posadas said an investigation is now ongoing, but said Sevilla may have been shot because he tried to “escape.”

“Ito ay nanlaban. Ito ay nakaposas subali’t alam ninyo naman kung saka-sakaling ang isang tao na masama ang iniisip at masama ang loob gagawa ng paraan upang makatakas (He might have tried to fight. Even if he was handcuffed, you know how a person with evil intentions would act to escape),” Posadas said in a separate interview on dzBB.

He also said that while the incident is under investigation, the two police escorts assigned to Sevilla will not be suspended for now. He did not name the two escorts.

Posadas said the two will be presumed innocent and will be allowed to continue their regular duties.

“May presumption of regularity in the performance of official duty. Kung may nagawang mali lilitaw ito. Kung mapatunayang sila ay nagkasala ituturing silang mga suspect at makukulong din (There is a presumption of regularity in the performance of official duties. But if the two did something wrong it will come out in the investigation and they will be properly dealt with),” he said.

Last week, two motorcycle-riding robbers snatched Amon’s jewelry, then shot him after he tried to go after them in Singalong, Manila.

Amon would have been deployed abroad next month.

Initial investigation showed Amon was talking with a fellow seaman in the area when the motorcycle-riding robbers showed up and snatched his jewelry.

When Amon tried to fight them off and go after them, they shot him. Bystanders rushed him to a nearby hospital but he was declared dead on arrival. — LBG, GMANews.TV