Paniqui police chief PLTCOL Noriel Rombaoa said the heated exchange began when suspect PSMSgt Jonel Nuezca complained hearing an improvised cannon (boga). It escalated when the police man’s young daughter argued with the elder victim. Nuezca pulled out his gun & fired.

Mugshot of Jonel Nuezca, the police officer who shot dead his two neighbors, a mother and her son, in Paniqui, Tarlac.

Photo shows the six administrative cases previously filed and decided against Police Senior Master Sergeant Jonel Nuezca before the shooting incident in Tarlac.

The sin of the police officer who shot dead a mother and her son in Tarlac is not the sin of the entire Philippine National Police, Interior Secretary Eduardo Año said Monday.

PSMS Jonel Nuezca, the policeman who shot dead a mother and her son in Tarlac, surrendered to Rosales Municipal Police Station Sunday afternoon.

Eduardo Año says the shooting incident in Tarlac involving a policeman, two unarmed neighbors was an “unfortunate but isolated incident.” He says P/SMSgt Joniel Nuezca will undergo a thorough, impartial, swift investigation to make sure he will account for his crimes.

PNP chief Gen. Debold Sinas on the shooting incident involving Senior Master Sergeant Jonel Nuezca: “First when I saw the video, [I was] of course angry and saddened that our policeman has committed such crime.”

Hashtags related to the killing of a mother and son in Tarlac took the top spots on Twitter’s Philippine trends on Monday morning.

PNP Region 3 Chief BGen. Val de Leon says double murder case will be filed vs PSMSgt. Jonel Nuezca for killing a mother and son in Paniqui, Tarlac yesterday.

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