Cop-suspect in Maguindanao massacre hurt in Pikit shootout
Local News • 16:30 PM Thu Mar 2, 2017
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By:
Edwin O. Fernandez
PIKIT, North
Cotabato – An ex-police officer wanted for his alleged involvement in
the 2009 Maguindanao massacre was injured in a shootout with lawmen out to
arrest him Tuesday, police here said today.
Chief
Inspector Donald Cabigas, Pikit town police chief, said the local police were
to serve arrest warrant issued by Judge Jocelyn Solis Reyes of RTC-221 in
Quezon City against former PO1 Jonathan Engid when he resisted and opened fire
on approaching lawmen.
Cabigas said
Engid was critically injured and rushed by police to the North Cotabato
provincial hospital.
Engid was the
122nd suspect charged before RTC-122 for the involvement in the
country’s worst election related violence that claimed 58 lives, 30 of whom
were journalists, in Ampatuan, Maguindanao.
More than 70
others remain at large.
Cabigas said
the suspect is under close watch by a team of police while he remained in the
hospital.