Tacloban shooting: Gun’s serial number traced to another firearm

MANILA, Philippines — The serial number of the .38 caliber revolver allegedly used by the 15-year-old suspect in the fatal shooting at a Tacloban City high school was traced to another gun in Bohol, according to the Philippine National Police (PNP).

“Through the serial number, it was traced to a security agency in Cebu,” PNP chief Gen. Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr. told reporters in a chance interview in Camp Crame on Wednesday.

“When they were asked about the actual presence or where the gun was, it was traced in another province but not in Tacloban. [It was] in Bohol,” added Nartatez partly in Filipino.

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“It is now being investigated to know why two guns have the same serial number,” Nartatez also said.

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The 15-year-old suspect was joined by a 14-year-old suspect in firing several gunshots on the premises of the San Jose National High School last Monday morning.

The incident left three students dead and several others injured.

While the 15-year-old suspect allegedly used a caliber .38 revolver, the 14-year-old suspect allegedly used a 9mm pistol belonging to his aunt, a police staff sergeant assigned to the Police Regional Office Eastern Visayas.

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The police staff sergeant has since been relieved from her post and will be subjected to summary dismissal proceedings.

Both minor suspects are under the custody of the police and the Department of Social Welfare and Development. /gsg

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