{"id":19480,"date":"2026-04-05T02:42:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T18:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=19480"},"modified":"2026-04-05T02:48:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T18:48:44","slug":"2-cops-bucor-employee-killed-in-palawan-shootout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/2-cops-bucor-employee-killed-in-palawan-shootout\/","title":{"rendered":"2 COPS, BUCOR EMPLOYEE KILLED IN PALAWAN SHOOTOUT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TWO members of the Philippine National Police (PNP) and an employee of the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) on Good Friday were killed in a shootout in Puerto Princesa City, Palawan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The fatalities were identified as Staff Sgt. Ryan Cris Caba\u00f1a, Staff Sgt. Jayson Fernandez, and Jerson Ojario Talon, an employee of the BuCor.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The three died on the spot.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>An investigation showed the incident occurred in Bgy. Irawan in Puerto Princesa City\u00a0 on Friday night.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Prior to the shooting, men drinking liquor at the wake of a dead neighbor reportedly mauled two individuals who, subsequently, sought help from policemen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The policemen who arrived at the scene immediately started questioning people around about the trouble, reportedly causing tension in the area.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Witnesses told probers that Caba\u00f1a, Fernandez, and Talon were heard arguing with each other loudly before gunshots were heard.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Special Investigation Task Group (SITG) was formed to solve the case while a <\/strong><strong>hot pursuit investigation is ongoing to arrest the suspects.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>PALAWAN CITY POLICE DIRECTOR RELIEVED<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Puerto Princesa police director Col. Cristine Tabdi \u00a0was ordered removed from his post effective April 4, 2026\u00a0 following\u00a0 the incident.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tapdi was replaced by Col. Dennis De Leon ,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The directive was issued by the Directorate for Personnel and Records Management and signed by Police Major General Constancio T. Chinayog Jr..<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Before Tabdi was relieved as head of the Puerto Princesa police, three high-profile cases were recorded in the city &#8212;\u00a0 the killing of lawyer <\/strong><strong>Joshua Abrina, the shooting of CAAP personnel Joanna Infante, and the killing of two police officers and a BuCor personnel last Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TWO members of the Philippine National Police (PNP) and an employee of the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) on Good Friday were killed in a shootout<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19480"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19483,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19480\/revisions\/19483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}