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Date: 13 July 2010
Source: Inquirer
Woman cop kills husband over abusive behavior
By Miko Morelos
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 00:19:00 07/13/2010
APPARENTLY weary of being a punching bag, a policewoman took matters into her own hands and shot her policeman-husband on Sunday night inside their house in Taguig City.
Senior Police Officer 1 Rolando Makabitas, 41, who was assigned to the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group in Camp Crame, Quezon City, died as he was being brought to the hospital, according to Taguig police chief, Senior Supt. Camilo Cascolan.
His wife, PO3 Elizabeth Makabitas, 41, immediately surrendered to authorities after the shooting.
Detailed with the Philippine National Police Health Service, she remains in the custody of the Taguig police who are preparing to charge her with parricide.
Cascolan said the shooting took place on Sunday night at the couple’s home within the Bases Conversion Development Authority compound in Taguig City.
“[Based on] the wife‘s statement, she said her husband had a habit of pistol-whipping and abusing her whenever he came home,” he told the Philippine Daily Inquirer on the phone.
He hinted that the couple had been having problems, apparently over the victim’s gambling problem, and that he rarely went home to his family. This was confirmed by one of the couple’s children, he added.
Based on the results of an initial police investigation, Cascolan said the policewoman and one of her children were asleep when her husband came home.
Roused from sleep by her husband, the policewoman told the police that she had an argument with him but she did not say what caused it.
At one point, her husband took his gun out of its holster, resulting in the couple grappling for possession of the firearm.
The policewoman said that as she was trying to wrest the gun away from her husband, she accidentally pulled the trigger and shot the victim in the left eye.
The Inquirer tried to talk to the policewoman but she told investigators that she would only talk in court.