A man who have been in hiding for two days after sadistically raping and attempting to murder a 9-year-old child was eventually killed by police in a manhunt operation in Palauig, Zambales on Sunday morning, November 15, 2020.
Tracker team from the combined elements of the Provincial Intelligence Unit (PIU), Masinloc Municipal police, Palauig Municipal police and the 1st Provincial Mobile Force Company of the Zambales Provincial Police Office (ZPPO) managed to locate the whereabout of the suspect Christopher Abella in his secluded hideout in Barangay Pangolingan.
According to Provincial Intelligence Unit Chief Police Lt. Col. Leonerdo Madrid, as they about to approach the suspect’s house when they were immediately fired upon by Abella which caused the troops to retaliate and later resulted in his neutralization.
The local government unit (LGU) of Masinloc recently put a bounty on Abella’s head worth P100,000.00 as reward for raping a 9-year-old girl in Barangay Locloc in Palauig on November 11, and the attempt to murder the victim who miraculously survived but in serious conditions at a hospital.
Abella was recently charged and convicted on February of 2013 following his involvement in a series of carnapping in the province.