The son of a school owner armed with a shotgun allegedly went amuck inside their campus in Bgy Palatiw, Pasig City on Saturday morning, killing one of the responding policeman.
In an ABS-CBN News article, Pasig police chief Senior Superintendent Mario Rariza said that Emerson Aries Go, 33, arrived at the St. Gabriel International School along Sandoval Avenue in a taxicab and carrying a shotgun, prompting security guards of the school to call for police assistance.
An off-duty cop, Senior Police Officer 1 Fernan Clemente, was playing basketball near the school at about 8:30 a.m. when the guards asked him to assist them.
According to Rariza, the security guards had asked Clemente to help disarm and pacify Go.
Rariza said that as Clemente was approaching Go, the suspect allegedly opened fire with the shotgun.
Clemente was rushed to the Pasig City General Hospital for emergency treatment while Go was later subdued and arrested by other policemen. Clemente later died at the hospital from his wounds.
As for the reason why Go was carrying a shotgun when he arrived at the school, Rariza said investigators have yet to find out as he refused to talk following his arrest.
This was not the first time that Go figured in a crime incident.
In December of 2012, Go held hostage his 66-year-old mother, Mildred, his two nephews aged eight and five years old, a four-year-old niece, and two of their housemaids inside their family-owned school.
Go surrendered after five hours of negotiation and was arrested.
As of posting, police authorities have not yet explained how Go managed to get out from jail despite of the 2012 hostage-taking incident, a non-bailable offense.