The Department of Justice (DOJ) has recommended no bail for the policeman implicated in the murder of Mati City-based broadcaster Jessie Camangyan last June 14.
Due to the gravity of the offense, Assistant State Prosecutor Nestor Lazaro recommended that no bail be granted to PO1 Dennis Lumikid, previously assigned at Manay Police Station in Manay, Davao Oriental.
The murder case against Lumikid was filed before the Regional Trial Court (RTC) in Mati City and pending for raffling.
Lumikid is presently under camp restriction at the PNP Provincial Police Office in Davao Oriental.
Limikid’s co-accused Barangay Captain Romeo Antoling of Barangay Old Macopa, Manay, Davao Oriental was dropped from the charges for insufficiency of evidence.
Lazaro directed the police to conduct further investigation on the case to determine the identity of Lumikid’s companion.
Camangyan, a broadcaster of Sunrise FM in Mati City, Davao Oriental, who kept on lambasting local officials allegedly involved in illegal logging operations, was gunned down while emceeing an amateur singing contest at Barangay Old Macopa, Manay, Davao Oriental.
It was Antoling who invited Camangyan to be the host of the singing contest during that time.
Antoling was implicated in the killing after he failed to extend assistance to Camangyan shortly after he was shot.
But Lazaro ruled that Antoling’s act was insufficient to hold him for trial for the murder of Camangyan.
Lumikid was positively identified by Camangyan’s live-in partner Ruth Matinong as the man bringing a firearm and left from where the broadcaster was shot.
Lumikid, on the other hand, claimed in his counter-affidavit that he was not at the crime scene when the incident happened and it was impossible for him to be at the place where Camangyan was killed.
He even presented affidavits of witnesses supporting his claim that he was at Barangay Guza, Manay, Davao Oriental which is eight kilometers away from Barangay Old Macopa where Camangyan was killed. - PNA
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