The presence of children during a supposed buy-bust should have guided law enforcers to proceed with caution and inhibited them from firing their weapons, the CHR said in a report on a 2019 drug operation wherein a 3-year-old girl was shot dead.
Four officers were involved in that operation and were later named respondents—Police Cpl. Mark Jherson Olaño, Staff Sergeants Fortunato Jiro III and Ederico Edrick Zalavaria, and their boss, Lt. Col. Resty Damaso, then police chief of Rodriguez.Another officer—Senior Master Sgt. Conrado Cabigao, who posed as a buyer of crystal meth or “shabu”—died in that operation. So did Enrique Cahilig, a companion of Ulpina, and Kateleen Myca Ulpina, the drug suspect’s 3-year-old daughter.
The CHR, however, noted in its conclusions that the police omitted the presence of Kateleen’s four siblings—the other children in the Ulpina home—as well as their mother, Lydjay, Renato’s wife. “Based on the foregoing, this office finds that the right of life of [Kateleen] was obviously violated in this case by the respondents,” the commission said.
The commission said there was “merit” to Lydjay’s claim. But this, it said, could not be supported by the other witnesses since they refused to execute affidavits “for fear of possible reprisal.”
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