(UPDATE) ONE of the suspects in the October 2022 assassination of broadcaster Percival "Percy Lapid" Mabasa shot himself dead while the police were about to arrest him in Batangas province on Sunday.
In a radio interview, National Capital Region Police Office chief Maj. Gen. Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr. said Jake "Orly" Mendoza, 40, of Baco, Oriental Mindoro shot himself while policemen were negotiating for the release of his live-in partner and their child, whom the suspect held hostage in Barangay Lumbang in Lipa City.
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