FOUR suspected carjackers were killed after they engaged the policemen in a shootout in Quezon City Wednesday dawn.
Director Orlando Mangonon Mabutas, chief of the police’s Highway Patrol Group (HPG), said identities of the carjackers remained unavailable as of Wednesday afternoon.
Earlier, combined HPG and Quezon City’s anti-carnapping policemen set up a checkpoint at the corner of Roosevelt and Quezon avenues during the conduct of anti-carnapping operations thereat when a green Toyota Revo with plate number ZFW-363 arrived.
According to Chief Inspector Allan Macapagan of the HPG, the vehicle tried to avoid the checkpoint by obviously increasing its speed as it approached the policemen’s position.
Macapagan said they were about to flag it down when the Revo sped up.
The police mobile crew pursued them and noticed that the plate number attached to the Revo allegedly did not match the vehicle’s model.
As it was speeding and descended towards the underpass along Quezon Avenue, the Revo’s right front side hit the wall of the underpass forcing it to stop.
As it halted, the four occupants, all armed with short firearms, alighted and began firing at the pursuing policemen.
After about five minutes of exchange of gunfire, three of the carjackers lay lifeless on the spot. Another carjacker was seriously wounded and rushed by a police mobile crew to the East Avenue Medical Center, where he was however declared dead on arrival by an attending physician.
No casualty was reported from the policemen’s side.
Scene of the Crime Office policemen later arrived at the crime scene and conducted investigation into the incident.
Recovered from the crime scene were two .9mm caliber pistols and two caliber .45 pistols. (VR/JRDB/Sunnex)
