House Speaker Isabela 6th district Rep. Faustino "Bojie" Dy III has supported calls from the chamber to investigate the tragic Tacloban City school shooting that took the lives of three minors. “The House supports efforts to establish the facts, ensure accountability under the law, and determine...
How did the San Jose National High School shooters--aged 14 and 15--get a hold of firearms in the first place? That 's the crucial question on the mind of former House quad-committee (quad-comm) overall chairman, Robert Ace Barbers when it comes to the deadly June 22 school shooting that...
The Philippine National Police (PNP) urged parents and guardians to be active in monitoring the social media and gadget use of their children following the involvement of two minors, aged 14 and 15, in the gun attack on a Tacloban City high school. PNP chief Gen. Jose Melencio C. Nartatez, Jr. said...
Mamamayang Liberal (ML) Party-list Rep. Leila de Lima said the tragic Tacloban City school shooting--where at least three minors died--must not be used to spread "false narratives". This, as De Lima joined on Monday, June 22 the growing list of lawmakers who have condemned the incident that rocked...
Police investigators have so far recovered at least 40 spent bullet casings at the gun attack site inside the San Jose National High School in Tacloban City that indicates the intention of the two students, aged 14 and 15, to go on a shooting rampage. Col. Allen Rae Co, spokesperson of the...
Senator Francis "Kiko" Pangilinan said that the suspects in the fatal school shooting in Tacloban cannot simply be released even if they are minors. Three students were killed, and seven others were wounded in a shooting incident at San Jose National High School here at around 9 a.m. Monday, June...
House Deputy Minority Leader and ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. Antonio Tinio has rejected the notion that the deadly Tacloban City school shooting displayed "isolated criminal behavior". Instead, the veteran lawmaker claimed that the tragic incident reflected a deeper set of longstanding and...
Senator Robinhood Padilla renewed his call for the tackling of his proposed measure seeking to amend the country’s juvenile justice law, following a fatal school shooting in Tacloban that left three students dead and seven others wounded. In a Facebook post, Padilla asked whether there is still...
The Philippine National Police (PNP) wants to sit down with the Department of Education (DepEd) and local government units (LGUs) to discuss security measures in schools and academic institutions following the gun attack in a Tacloban City school that left at least three students dead. PNP chief...
Senators on Monday, June 22 expressed outrage over reports of a shooting incident at a high school in Tacloban City where three people were killed and five others were seriously wounded. “I am deeply alarmed and outraged by the school shooting incident this morning at San Jose National High...
Former House Speaker and Leyte 1st district Rep. Martin Romualdez has moved to render assistance to the families affected by the tragic school shooting in his home city of Tacloban in Leyte province. "I have directed my office to coordinate with local authorities and relevant government agencies to...
Police are pursuing the information they received that the two shooters in Tacloban City school are bullying victims amid the efforts of the investigators to establish what prompted the two high school students to engage in gun violence that left three people dead and seven others injured on Monday...
