GAPAN CITY – A suspected drug pusher was killed in an alleged shootout with policemen during a buy-bust operation at Riverside, Barangay San Vicente here Tuesday night.
PO3 Nino Cabog, investigator, said Ray Duca, resident of the said village, opened fire at the lawmen upon sensing he was dealing with lawmen at around 8:50 p.m. “
During the buy-bust operation subject person sense(d) that his buyers are police officers and suddenly ran and drew his firearm,” Cabog said.
This prompted policemen to fire back and hit the suspect in different parts of his body, he said.
Duca, Cabog said, was rushed to a local hospital but was dead on arrival.
Investigators recovered from the place of encounter a .38 revolver with three live and two “misfired” bullets supposedly belonging to Daca, and empty shells from a 9mm.
From Duca”s body, police said, probers recovered one small sachet of shabu and the marked P500 bill.
