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PNP dismisses cop who gunned down mother and son in Tarlac

Published Jan 11, 2021 12:42 pm

Police Staff Sgt. Jonel Nuezca, the policeman who gunned down a 52-year-old woman and her son at close range in Paniqui, Tarlac, last Dec. 20, and whose video went viral online, has been dismissed from the service.

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Police Gen. Debold Sinas, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), said Nuezca was dismissed from the service effective Monday, Jan. 11, on recommendation of the Internal Affairs Service.

“I would like to announce that the admin case of police staff Sgt. Jonnel Nuezca is already resolved. He is meted administrative penalty of dismissal from service effective today (Jan. 11). This has already been implemented by the RD NCRPO, Brig. Gen. Vic Danao,” said Sinas in a press briefing in Camp Crame in Quezon City on Monday.

Sinas had earlier vowed to dismiss Nuezca from the service within 30 days after the cold-blooded shooting on Dec. 20.

The video of the incident captured by the relatives of the Gregorios went viral on social media.

“As to the criminal cases, it is still ongoing,” said Sinas.

IAS Inspector General Alfegar Triambulo said Sunday that he had recommended the dismissal of Nuezca as the investigation revealed his liability on the administrative case of grave misconduct leveled against him in connection with the shooting.

The recommendation was submitted to the regional director of the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) as Nuezca was assigned to the Crime Laboratory based in Paranaque City.

Nuezca was charged with two counts of Grave Misconduct and two counts of Conduct Unbecoming a Police Officer.

Triambulo added that Nuezca’s admission in his position paper that he shot the two victims, Sonya Gregorio and her son Frank, also served as the basis of their recommendation for dismissal.

Nuezca has pleaded not guilty on the two cases of murder filed against him before a Regional Trial Court in Paniqui.

IBP lauds PNP action

The Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) lauded the decision of the Philippine National Police (PNP) to dismiss Police Master Sergeant Jonel Nuesca.

“The swift action of the Internal Affairs Service of the Philippine National Police on the administrative case of Master Sergeant Nuezca by recommending his dismissal from the service for shooting his neighbors Sonya and Frank Anthony Gregorio is welcome and commendable,” IBP President Domingo Egon Cayosa said in a statement.

“’Justice bilis’ (fast justice) and making the malefactor accountable after due process is the more effective deterrence to crime and misconduct,” he said.

“It also helps restore the trust of the citizens in our police force and in our justice system,” he added.

Cayosa also urged the PNP’s Internal Affairs Service to also promptly act on other pending cases.

“More than the severity of the penalty, certainty and promptness of punishment are tested antidotes to criminality,” he pointed out. (With a report from Jeffrey Damicog)

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