Security agency that hired ‘killer guard’ to be probed

PRO 7 to invite agencies following recent violent incidents involving guards

AN OFFICIAL of the Police Regional Office (PRO) 7 said the agency that had employed the security guard who killed two lawyers will be included in the investigation.

Senior Supt. Rey Lyndon Lawas, deputy regional director for operations, said the inquiry will determine if suspect Jonathan Sanchez suffers from a mental illness, as claimed by the suspect’s wife.

He said he will tap the Firearms, Explosives, Security Agencies and Guards Supervision (Fessags) 7 to invite the organization of security agencies, adding there were several incidents involving guards last week.

Requirement

One particular agency’s guards were involved in two or three incidents, he said.

“Makig-esturya ta nila para, at least, malikayan ni niang klaseng sitwasyon (We’ll talk to them in the hopes these kinds of situa- tion will be avoided),” said Lawas, former chief of Fessags 7, the police unit that oversees the operations of security agencies.

He said he will suggest the meeting with security agencies to PRO 7 Director Noli Taliño.

Lawas said the security agencies are required to conduct drug and neurological tests on their employees.

“We will check if they regularly conduct these tests,” he said. “We will look into their records. We will know who conducted the tests.”

Last Thursday night, security guard Sanchez shot lawyers Gerik and Goering Paderanga in Barangay Sta. Cruz, Cebu City.

Goering, husband of Regional Trial Court Branch 16 Judge Sylva Paderanga, died on the spot. His son Gerik died inside a hospital last Sunday.

Other angles

Police arrested Sanchez in his parents’ house in Barangay Budlaan, Cebu City last Dec. 23.

Sanchez, who did not resist arrest, admitted shooting the Paderangas because he was angry at them for blocking a cement mixer from entering the construction site where he was assigned.

Lawas said investigators will look at other theories behind the murder of the Paderangas, including if other people had urged the suspect to kill the lawyers.