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An opposition senator on Friday called on the Philippine National Police to launch a full investigation into the “summary execution” of a man who was brutally shot and killed inside a government hospital in the city of Angono just hours after surviving just to gunshot wounds to the head.
Senator Risa Hontiveros said she was “gravely disturbed and enraged” by the brazen murder of 27-year-old Antipolo resident Vincent Adia, who was recovering from three gunshot wounds in the Rizal Provincial Hospital annex wounds when an assailant masked man broke into the emergency. room and fired two bullets, in full view of hospital employees.
“This horrible attack was a clear violation of Vincent’s human rights and a great lack of respect for the health sector,” said the senator.
“I am seriously disturbed and enraged by this incident. The initial indiscriminate assault on Vincent on the streets already shocks the conscience. But his summary execution, while helpless in his hospital bed, adds to the gruesome series of murders that has continued under this administration, ”Hontiveros said.
News reports citing Adia’s relatives indicated that the victim had been labeled a drug dealer by her killer, although Police Colonel Joseph Arguelles, director of the Rizal provincial police, said she was not on the watch list. of drug personalities.
Hontiveros said she was horrified that the second attack took place inside a hospital.
“Hospitals are intended to be safe spaces for recovery and rehabilitation, but Vincent’s place of refuge was degraded by perpetrators of extreme violence, who remain largely at large,” he said.
He urged the PNP to conduct “a timely, thorough and transparent investigation into this gruesome incident.”
“The PNP should also adopt rigorous protection measures for eyewitnesses who were relentless in their details,” Hontiveros said.
“However, the statistics of unresolved extrajudicial executions are also a testimony that many of the promises of law enforcement officials have not been kept, extending the period of emotional brutality for the families of the victims,” he added.
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