UV Express Rape and Robbery Suspect Accomplice Dies in gun-grab

Quezon City police have arrested the other suspect in the rape-robbery incident, he was
shot dead after grabbing the gun of one the cops arresting him.

Alfie Palana Turado 34, alias “Buddy,” the accomplice of a colorum UV Express driver (Wilfredo Lorenzo) who raped and robbed two women in Batasan Hills, Quezon City, was arrested in Barangay (village) Obrero at around 2:00 a.m. according to the Quezon City Police District’s Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit (QCPD CIDU).
But almost two hours after he was arrested and brought to the police station, he was shot after taking the gun of the police officers who escorted him. He eventually died at the hospital while receiving medical treatment shortly before 4 a.m.

QCPD CIDU head Supt. Rodel Marcelo said in the incident report the suspect when they are already at QCPD headquarters in Camp Karingal, asked the police to bring him to his house in Brgy. Pasong Tamo, Quezon City to get the items he stole from the female victims.

At 3 a.m., Turado and the police officers left the headquarters.

“On the way to the place where the suspect allegedly kept the stolen items along Tandang Sora Avenue near Visayas Avenue, Turado suddenly grabbed the firearm of PO2 Randy Gandingco, which was tucked in his waistline,” the report read.

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