NCRPO looking into person of interest in Percy Lapid’s death

Police investigators are looking at a person of interest in the October 3 murder of radio broadcaster Pervical Mabasa, better known as Percy Lapid, according to the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) this Friday.

NCRPO chief Police Brigadier General Jonnel Estomo said that such a person of interest was captured by CCTV cameras that Lapid passed by before he was shot and killed.

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“The Special Investigation Task Force Percy Lapid, with their ongoing follow-up investigation, confirmed to have developed a person of interest in the case due to their collection of all available backtrack CCTV footage along the victim’s routes before the incident happened,” Estomo’s statement.

Department of the Interior and Local Government Secretary Benhur Abalos also presented, in the said briefing, the enlarged copy of the printout of the photo taken of the person of interest, whose identity is yet to be ascertained.

Meanwhile, Estomo also announced that the reward for the informant who can provide information for the gunman’s arrest has also increased from P500,000 to P1.5 million.

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“Our very own SILG (Secretary of the Interior and Local Government) said that we are offering this reward to anyone who can provide information that will lead to the speedy resolution of this case,” according to Estomo, who also said he gave an initial P500 ,000 rewards from his own pocket to Secretary Abalos.

NCRPO looking into person of interest in Percy Lapid’s death

Estomo also said that the police guarantee the informant’s safety.

Sec. Abalos is confident they will soon identify the person of interest due to reward money and additional CCTV footage.

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Lapid is a radio host on DWBL 1242’s “Percy Lapid Fire” program and a columnist for the tabloid Hataw.

It can be recalled that he was shot and killed by two men while returning home to his house in Barangay Talon Dos, Las Piñas City, on the night of October 3, 2022.

Malacañang had previously said that “President Marcos is concerned” about the killing of the journalist.

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