By Gemi Formaran March 7, 2020 LUCENA CITY - A drug personality who raped an 11 year-old mentally retarded girl was killed after he engag...
March 7, 2020
LUCENA CITY - A drug personality who raped an 11 year-old mentally retarded girl was killed after he engaged in a shootout with policemen who were about to arrest him at Purok Maulawin, Brgy. Isabang, here, before midnight yesterday.
City police director, Lt. Col. Romulo Albacea identified the slain suspect as Michael Zafranco, 26, baker and resident of said village.
Albacea said Zafranco who has been included in their drug watchlist was named as the one who molested and raped her mentally retarded neighbor.
But the girl, though has a mental disability was able to tell her mother that while she was playing alone at the river bank on Friday late afternoon, Zafranco approached her and touched her private parts before he brought her to the grassy portion of the area where she was subsequently raped.
The girl said the suspect gave her P20 and threatened to kill her once she tells anyone about what he did to her.
Upon learning of her daughter’s ordeal, the mother quickly accompanied the girl to the police and reported the incident at 9:00 p.m.
Acting on the complaint, Albacea said he immediately dispatched his operatives from Intelligence and Follow- up sections.
Upon their arrival at the village, Albacea said the policemen spotted Zafranco outside the bakery where he works but when they were about to approach him, the latter immediately pulled a revolver and opened fire.
“The cops quickly fired back hitting Zafranco in the body”, said Albacea.
The wounded suspect was rushed to Lucena United Doctors Hospital where he died while being treated. Scene of the crime officers who processed the crime scene recovered a cal. 38 revolver with four live bullets and two spent shells on its chamber and spent shells for cal. 9mm pistol.
Campaign against rape has been intensified by Quezon Police Provincial Office on orders of provincial director Col. Audie Madrideo after a series of rape cases in the province was noticed by President Rodrigo Duterte a few months ago.
Last February 26, the principal suspect in the rape- slay of a 10 year- old autistic girl in Tayabas City was shot dead by police operatives during a pursuit operation in Brgy. Aldaboc, Tagkawayan, Quezon. The suspect who was armed with a hand grenade allegedly resisted arrest.
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