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TWO police officers and a lawyer on Sunday afternoon died in a shootout in Tagaytay City, Cavite.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A report to Police Regional Office 4A Director Brig. Gen. Paul Kenneth Lucas identified the fatalities as Capt. Adrian Binalay of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group – National Capital Region (CIDG-NCR), Capt. Tomas Batarao Jr., and attorney Dennis Santos.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The encounter occurred at Prime Peak Subdivision in Bgy. Maitim 2nd<\/sup> Central in Tagaytay City at 2 p.m. Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Prior to the gunfight, the police officers, along with civilian Babygen Victa Magistrado of Bgy. Commonwealth, Quezon City, went to Prime Peak Subdivision to inquire about a parcel of land they are planning to buy.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n They were about to enter the subdivision when they were prevented by the duty security guard, Ryan Santillan.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The victims allegedly insisted and continued to enter the place when the lawyer-suspect suddenly alighted from his car and shot the two police officers repeatedly.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Despite wounded, Binalay and Batarao were able to return fire, hitting Santos.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Binalay died on the spot while Batarao and Santos were declared dead on arrival at the hospital.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Two other companions of the lawyer-suspect identified as Elver Mabuti and Benedicto Hebron were arrested by responding lawmen.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Calabarzon top cop immediately ordered an in-depth investigation into the incident.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TWO police officers and a lawyer on Sunday afternoon died in a shootout in Tagaytay City, Cavite. A report to Police Regional Office 4A Director<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8291,"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\/8290"}],"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=8290"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8298,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8290\/revisions\/8298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}