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BY KEVIN GALANG<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A NOTORIOUS hired gun wanted for a string of murder cases was killed in a shootout with the police in Porac, Pampanga.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In a report to Police Regional Office 3 OIC Brig. Gen. Benjamin DL Sembrano, Pampanga police director Col. Jay Dimaandal identified the slain suspect as Jojo Garcia Fajardo of Arayat, Pampanga.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n According to Dimaandal, Fajardo has a string of warrants of arrest for murder and robbery cases.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Prior to the shootout, the Arayat police was informed that victim Edmar Lacsamana, 26, of Bgy. Candating, was rushed to the Dr. Emigdio C. Cruz Sr. Memorial Hospital after a shooting incident in Bgy. San Agustin Norte.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Based on initial investigation, the victim was killed by two men on a Kawasaki Barako tricycle with plate number 1049 KY.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Following a flash alarm, an informant called the Porac police saying the described motorcycle was spotted on the megadike extention being driven by a male person, who was later identified as Fajardo.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A joint pursuit operation was launched but when the suspect noticed the approaching operatives, he ran towards the grassy portion of the megadike, Dimaandal said.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Policemen chased the suspect on foot until Fajardo was cornered him in Bgy. Cangatba, Porac, where a gunfight ensued, which led to the death of the suspect. <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Records showed the suspect had warrants of arrest for three murder cases, one for robbery, and eight shooting incidents in Arayat and Porac. <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Arayat Scene of the Crime Office (SOCO) team recovered at the clash site a cal. .45 pistol, one cellular phone, and bullets.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BY KEVIN GALANG A NOTORIOUS hired gun wanted for a string of murder cases was killed in a shootout with the police in Porac, Pampanga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7987"}],"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=7987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7989,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7987\/revisions\/7989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}