Vice President Leni Robredo warned that some people will use the killing of a mother and son in Tarlac to sow discord among Filipinos as she calls for justice and demands a more humane response to the incident.

In a statement, Robredo said that “there will be those who will lay all blame on the person who pulled the trigger, as if he were not part of a larger architecture of impunity.”

“Despite a clear pattern of brutality and a string of cases that made his propensity for violence apparent, the leadership allowed him to remain in service: May tsapa, may baril (with badge and a gun),” Robredo said.

On Monday morning, a viral video showed the suspect, Police Senior Master Sgt. Joel Nuezca, shot dead his two neighbors—Sonya and Frank Anthony Gregorio— after a verbal altercation over the victims’ use of “boga” or noisemaker in their hometown.

Nuezca, who is assigned in Parañaque City, surrendered to authorities in Pangasinan. He has been turned over to Paniqui Police and is facing a double murder case.

The Vice President said some sectors of society will create division between the police and the people, using the incident to blind people from the structural problems that plague law enforcement.

“They will use this incident, as they have many other incidents before, to divide us,” she added.

The Gregorios, Robredo said, were ordinary Filipinos who were looking forward to Christmas and New Year.

Instead, they found themselves facing Nuezca in an altercation that ended both their lives.

“May we find anchorage in our common human response to these deaths: Kinilabutan tayo, nabasag ang puso natin, mali ito (may it terrify us, break our hearts because this is wrong),” Robredo said.

“We are bound in horror, grief, and empathy for Sonya and Frank Gregorio, as we are bound in condemnation of their senseless murders and of the murders of so many innocents over the past years,” she continued.