REPORT ON INVESTIGATED KILLINGS IN RELATION TO THE ANTI-ILLEGAL DRUG CAMPAIGN In one representative case,71 according to the police, they conducted a buy-bust operation at the house of the original targets, where the victim and his partner were temporarily staying. The police claimed that one of the targets went up to the second floor of the house to escape after a botched sale. In one room, a police officer saw the victim aiming his firearm at him. Shocked at his discovery, the police officer shot the victim killing the latter instantaneously. The original targets were then able to escape. However, witnesses claimed that the police barged into their house around 3 a.m. and were looking for a certain “Boy-boy.” Upon failing to locate him, they ordered the victim’s mother and partner to go outside the house, leaving behind the 17-year-old victim. The witnesses then heard at least three gunshots coming from inside the house. They later found out that the victim was killed by the police operatives. ILLUSTRATIVE CASES CHR XII 2018-0244 This case pertains to an alleged implementation of search warrants against the victim for violation of Republic Act (RA) No. 10591 (Comprehensive Firearms and Ammunition Regulation Act) and RA No. 9165 (Comprehensive Dangerous Act of 2002). The incident took place in the house of the victim on the early morning of 08 June 2018, in Sarangani. According to the police, the team leader properly knocked on the door of the victim’s house. When the victim’s wife opened the door the team leader told her that they have search warrants against her husband. However, the operatives saw a man holding a firearm running inside the house going towards one of the rooms. Then one of the operatives was heard shouting “MAY BARIL! MAY BARIL!” (He has a gun!). The team leader immediately told one of his colleagues to bring the victim’s wife outside the house for safety. Thereafter, the operating team rushed inside the house of the victim to subdue him. But despite the effort of the operatives to convince the victim to surrender, he fired in their direction almost hitting one of the operatives. The operatives defended themselves which resulted in a short firefight. As a result, the victim sustained gunshot wounds, brought to a hospital, and later declared dead on arrival by the attending physician. However, the victim’s wife belied the police’s allegations. According to her, the victim together with her and their son were sleeping soundly inside their room when they heard a loud bang. They went outside their room to check where the noise was coming from. Then they heard a person from the outside identifying themselves as officers from the CIDG. When they hurriedly open the door, more or less three persons in “military” uniform with black ski masks/bonnet were pointing their long firearms toward them. The men were shouting that they were from CIDG and that the victim and his family have to get out of the house. The victim and his wife stepped back with their hands raised. However, the victim was left inside the house. When the wife was near the gate, one of the operatives handed her son to her. Subsequently, the wife heard bursts of gunshots while the operatives were shouting that somebody has a gun. The wife shouted that they have no gun. A few minutes later, the wife saw the police operatives carrying the victim using a bedsheet and brought him to a hospital. The wife later learned that the victim died. The wife also claimed that the shabu seized is planted due to the fact that the victim in his entire life was never involved in any illegal drug activities. 71 CHR NCR 2017-0010. 20