Forensic pathologist Dr. Raquel Fortun mentioned post-mortem outcomes revealed 17-year-old Jemboy Baltazar additionally had a gunshot wound on his proper hand, indicating that he tried to defend himself.
The post-mortem discovered that Jemboy was hit twice, on the pinnacle with an entry wound behind the ear and an exit wound on the nostril, whereas the opposite shot hit him on the proper hand.
“‘Yung kamay, because of the location, this is what we call a defense-type injury. And I heard accounts that he held his hands up in surrender, and that is a defensive stance,” Fortun said in a 24 Oras Weekend report by Jonathan Andal on Saturday.
According to his death certificate, Jemboy’s reason for dying was a gunshot wound to the pinnacle, in addition to asphyxia from drowning.
But Fortun mentioned had Jemboy not fallen on the river following the capturing incident, he might have been rescued.
Fortun will re-examine Jemboy’s mind and conduct a histopathology examination on it.
“In the news accounts could nakikita na akong conflicting verson… kesyo tumalon daw siya sa tubig, nahulog daw siya sa tubig, at pinagbababaril sa tubig. Teka muna, parang asintado ito. Sa ulo talaga, sa kamay talaga. Totoo ba yan?” she said.
“Kais kung blindly nagpaputok ka sa isang tao sa tubig… the chest naturally is a bigger target, wala kaming nakitang bala naiwan doon sa body. Lusutan talaga, through and through yung dalawang tama niya,” Fortun added.
She hoped that the police would stage a capturing reconstruction to additional make clear how Jemboy was shot and killed.
Navotas Police Chief Police Colonel Allan Umipig mentioned investigators didn’t discover any shell casing on the crime scene.
The involvoed policemen additionally allegedly tried to hide their failed operation from him, because it took three hours earlier than they reported the incident.
Twenty-seven personnel of the Navotas City Police Substation 4 had been relieved from their publish, together with those that shot at Jemboy, and would bear retraining.
Jemboy’s mom Rodaliza Baltazar will face the six cops concerned in his son’s dying on the prosecutor’s workplace.
She expressed concern for her household’s safety, as different policemen had been additionally current within the operation that killed Jemboy, in accordance with witnesses.
Jemboy is about to be buried on the La Loma Cemetery on Wednesday, August 16. — Jamil Santos/DVM, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
