By Kit Bagaipo
The Bohol Chronicle
Police are now hunting for a fellow policeman who shot dead inside the PNP Cortes headquarters a drunken man Monday night.
The suspect is one Police Officer-2 Apolinar Galapin y Moring, 37, a native of Candijay but now residing in Cortes town. He is also police investigator of the Cortes police station.
According to PO1 Ranillo Lomonsod, PO2 Galapin together with SPO1 Nicolito Longgakit responded to a call from the Barangay De La Paz tanod outpost around 11 p.m. regarding a drunk man with two lady companions who were also intoxicated.
The responding policemen brought the three suspects to the Cortes PNP Station.
PO1 Lomonsod said he noticed PO2 Galapin, who was himself drunk, had an altercation with the intoxicated victim, later identified as one Leo Lagrada, 29, a resident of barangay De La Paz, when they entered the police station.
The heated exchange between PO2 Galapin and Lagrada continued until the two other policemen went out of the station.
According to PO1 Lomonsod, he was talking to the two female companions of Lagrada when he heard a single gunshot coming from the police office.
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