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ONE of the suspects in the killing of broadcaster <\/strong>Percival “Percy Lapid” Mabasa on Sunday allegedly shot himself dead while about to be arrested by the police in Lipa City, Batangas.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n National Capital Region Police Office chief Maj. Gen. Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr. told a radio interview that suspect Jake “Orly” Mendoza, 40, of Baco, Oriental Mindoro killed himself.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The incident happened while authorities\u00a0were serving a warrant of arrest<\/strong> against the suspect.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mendoza reportedly held his wife and child hostage in \u00a0Purok 4, Bgy. Lumbang in Lipa City.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Police said the suspect eventually released his wife and child before killing himself.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n “Hindi sya sumuko. Nakipag-negotiate tayo hanggang umabot ng alas kwatro ng madaling araw,\u201d Nartatez said.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A cousin of the suspect and a negotiator helped in the negotiation.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n During negotiation, Mendoza went to the bathroom and shot himself, according to the official.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In May, the Las Pi\u00f1as Regional Trial Court sentenced to 16 years Joel Escorial, the self-confessed gunman of Lapid.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The broadcaster was shot dead by motorcycle-riding assassins near his residence in Las Pi\u00f1as in October 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ONE of the suspects in the killing of broadcaster Percival “Percy Lapid” Mabasa on Sunday allegedly shot himself dead while about to be arrested by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7799"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7801,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7799\/revisions\/7801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}