MANILA, Philippines — The teenager who was killed by a police officer in Valenzuela was not in a gun scuffle with him, the city mayor said Thursday, contrary to what the police initially reported.
Mayor Rex Gatchalian, however, said that the witness to the shooting of 18-year-old Edwin Cabantugan Arnigo, who was a person with autism, claimed that the incident was “accidental” due to the “reaction of the officer after the shooting.”
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Earlier, Valenzuela City police chief Col. Ramchrisen Haveria Jr. said that the police who allegedly shot Arnigo—Police Senior Mast…
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