Tag: Kian delos Santos

LOOK: President Duterte meets Kian’s parents

(Eagle News) — President Duterte had a meeting with the parents of 17-year-old Kian delos Santos on Monday. In this photo courtesy of Special Assistant to the President Bong Go, Duterte is seen with Zaldy and Lorenza delos Santos in the Malacañan Golf Clubhouse. The 17-year-old was killed in what police said was an anti-drug operation in Caloocan on Aug.16. The police said the boy had fired at them as they approached him, prompting him […]

Palace tells public to “trust justice system” as Kian laid to rest

(Eagle News) — The Palace on Saturday urged the public to “trust the justice system,” as the 17-year-old boy who was killed in an anti-drug operation in Caloocan was laid to rest. “Let us allow the legal process to run its course…,” China Jocson, assistant to the presidential spokesperson, said in a statement. According to Jocson, the President “has reminded our law enforcement officers in numerous occasions that he will not tolerate their wrongdoings or […]

PNP-IAS: No chase, encounter prior to Kian killing

(Eagle News) — The contents of the spot report supposedly detailing what happened on the night Kian Delos Santos was killed do not match what the Internal Affairs Service of the Philippine National Police believed happened, based on testimonies. This was revealed during Senator Bam Aquino’s questioning of PNP-IAS Director General Alfegar Triambulo and Senior Supt. Chito Bersaluna during the  hearing held by the Senate committee on public order and dangerous drugs on Thursday. The […]

Kian’s body negative for gunpowder nitrates, according to PNP paraffin test

(Eagle News) – Paraffin tests done by the police on the slain Grade 11 student Kian Loyd delos Santos showed he was negative for gunpowder nitrates, which meant he did not fire a gun contrary to the arresting policemen’s claim. “Both hands of the cadaver do not contain gunpowder nitrates,” said the results of the Philippine National Police’s paraffin tests on Kian’s body. “The qualitative examination conducted on the paraffin cast taken from both hands […]

PNP Crime Lab: Kian died of two gunshot wounds; results contradict PAO report

  (Eagle News) — Seventeen-year-old Kian delos Santos died of two gunshot wounds in the head. This was according to the results of the autopsy performed by the Philippine National Police Crime Lab on the Grade 11 student, who was killed in a supposed anti-drug operation in Caloocan days ago. The results contradict the findings of the Public Attorneys Office, which said that the boy had died of three gunshots–two in the head and one […]

PNP IAS: Two of three Caloocan cops admit Kian, not informant, was the one they held in CCTV footage

(Eagle News) — Two of the three police officers believed involved in the killing of Kian delos Santos in an anti-drug operation in Caloocan last week have admitted it was the  17-year-old they were holding in footage from the barangay’s closed-circuit television camera. “Inamin ng dalawang pulis na sila nga daw ang nakaakbay kay Kian at si Kian ang nasa video, taliwas sa kanilang unang sinasabi na yun ay informant,” Internal Affairs Service Inspector General Alfegar […]

Caloocan PCP 7 commander, 3 of his men relieved over killing of student in drug op

(Eagle News) — The policemen who took part in an anti-drug operation that saw a minor killed on Wednesday night and their superior have been relieved from their posts. National Capital Region Police Office chief Director Oscar Albayalde said in a radio interview on Friday that the three policemen behind the operation in Barangay 160 that saw Kian Loyd Delos Santos, 17, killed have been ordered to report to the  Regional Police Holding Administrative Unit. […]