Police say firearms that killed 3-year-old Myca Ulpina belong to two cops

Authorities have found out that the firearms of the policemen in the Rodriguez, Rizal drug buy-bust were the ones which killed three-year-old Kateleen Myca Ulpina.

According to Police Brigadier General Edward Carranza, regional director of CALABARZON police, probe has revealed that the bullets which hit Myca’s nape based on its upward trajectory came from the firearm of Police Senior Master Sergent Conrad Cabigao.

Cabigao, who was also killed during the operation, was the policeman who posed as buyer during the buy-bust.

Carranza, meanwhile, said the downward trajectory of bullets that hit Myca’s right thumb and left foot was believed to have come from the gun of Police Corporal Mark Jherson Olaño, who will be facing a criminal complaint.

Carranza has ordered for the relief of the chief of police of Rodriguez, Rizal and 19 Police Non-Commissioned Officers who were involved in the operation.

The result of the investigation will result in the filing of cases against some policemen.

Carranza said administrative complaints will be filed against Police Chief Master Sergeant Gerry Cordero, who acted as team leader, for grave irregularity in the performance of duty while grave neglect of duty will be filed against Police Lieutenant Colonel Resty Damaso for command responsibility.

Police Chief Master Sergeant Vladmir Dizon, chief investigator of Rodriguez police, will also be slapped with grave neglect of duty for allowing four patrolmen investigators to handle the case without supervision from a senior police investigator.

Police autopsy bared that Myca died of brain injury. She was killed on June 29 during a buy-bust operation by Rodriguez police that supposedly targeted her father, Renato Dolofrina.

Police claimed the suspect used his daughter as a human shield during the shootout but the victim’s family and a witness denied this. —LDF, GMA News