A report reaching Camp Olivas here identified the slain suspects as Apolinario Bonifacio, 44, and Victorio Hosmillo, both of Barangay San Pedro. Another suspect named only as Omar was able to flee.
The report quoted Bulacan police chief Senior Supt. Ferdinand Divina as saying that cops, led by city director Supt.
Charlie Crabadilla, were on surveillance operations in the barangay when the suspects fired at them.
The operations were to lead to the serving of an arrest warrrant against Bonifacio on a robbery case. Bonifacio was dubbed as the No. 5 priority of the Bulacan police and the top priority of the San Juan del Monte police for illegal drugs.
Bonifacio’s companion Hosmillo was a former inmate at the National Bilibid Prison.
The two fired at the cops who were patrolling their barangay at 1:30 a.m. Sunday, triggering a firefight that killed them on the spot.
Police investigators later found in the site a .45 Taurus pistol with two magazines, a .38 revolver with live bullets, three pieces of spent shells for .45, three motorcycles, motorcycles parts and accessories, five sachets of suspected shabu, illegal drugs paraphernalia, a digital weighing scale, and two pieces of dismantled .38 revolver.
