Kidnap-slay suspect gunned down

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 05:43:23 +0000

GENERAL SANTOS CITY – A suspect in the abduction and killing of a 16-year-old girl in Banga, South Cotabato was killed in a police operation in Isulan, Sultan Kudarat yesterday.

Police Brig. Gen. Alfred Corpus, Police Regional Office 12 director, said Richard Romo Gumilid, 31, was gunned down by operatives after he reportedly tried to throw a hand grenade when they attempted to “invite” him for investigation at about 2:25 a.m. Corpus said the incident occurred by the roadside in front of Gumilid’s house in Barangay Kalawag 1.

He said Gumilid was initially identified as a “person of interest” in the kidnap-slaying of Barbie Inocencio, a resident of Banga, who was reported missing on Monday and eventually found dead on Wednesday afternoon.

Gumilid, he said, resisted and was armed with a hand grenade when operatives managed to track him down at his residence. “He became unruly and tried to throw the grenade, so he (had) to be neutralized,” Corpus said in a radio interview.

A police report from the Isulan municipal police listed Gumilid as single and a businessman from the area.

The Grade 10 student of the Notre Dame of Banga was reported missing by her mother late Monday after she failed to return home from school and lost contact w
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