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THE COMMISSION on Human Rights in Central Visayas (CHR-7) has asked the National Bureau of Investigation to give the commission copies of the NBI?s Oct. 29 operations in barangay Estaca, Compostela, where the four ?Greenbelt? robbery suspects were killed in an alleged shootout.
In his letter request to the NBI, Primo Cadampog, CHR-7 chief investigator, said the commission wanted to know if the four robbers were killed in a shootout or a rubout.
The CHR also wanted to check the legitimacy of the NBI?s operations.
Among the documents asked by the commission were copies of the autopsy reports, ballistic results of the guns seized in the area and copies of the blotter report at the Compostela police.
The commission?s investigation stemmed from an order by CHR-7 regional director Alejandro Alonso.
Cadampong visited the resort in Estaca on Wednesday, but noted that the encounter site had been cleaned up.
Resort caretakers said NBI-7 agent Arnel Pura allowed them to clean up the place, Cadampog said.
Cadampog said he was surprised when the caretakers told him that the shootout happened outside the resort duplex in which the suspects were staying.
Cadampong said he was looking for two other persons who may have witnessed the incident.
One witness was said to have been outside the resort premises when the NBI-7 operatives arrived. The second was an occupant of a room next to the suspects? resort house.
Killed during the Oct. 29 incident were Alvin Flores, Richie Hijapon, Mark Salamanca and Roger Sanchez.
Another suspect, Rene Batiancila, surrendered after trying to escape.
Only the body of Hijapon was claimed by his relatives from the town of Sta. Fe, Bantyan Island, in northern Cebu.
The bodies of the three other suspects are stored at the Cosmopolitan Funeral Homes on Junquera Street, Cebu City.
The bodies would be kept for three months before these would be buried in a public cemetery, said Cosmopolitan branch manager Mario Esparcia.
Laguna City-based lawyer Cayetano Santos visited Cosmopolitan yesterday in behalf of the Flores family to verify the identity of the body believed to be that of Alvin Flores of Malolos, Bulacan.
Santos said he took photos of the body, which he would show the Floreses.
?We are not claiming it, as of now... The family first wants to establish the identity of Flores,? Santos said in Tagalog.
A report from ABS-CBN said Flores had altered his face through plastic surgery to evade detection from authorities.
Dr. Rene Cam, NBI-7 medico-legal officer, said the Flores family may claim the body once the autopsy was completed.
Cam confirmed that Flores? body had traces of cosmetic surgery.
