PNP confers posthumous heroism medal to Butron
Slain policeman SPO4 Asterio Butron was yesterday posthumously conferred with the PNP’s Medal for Heroism, the “Medalya ng Kadakilaan”, through his wife, Generosa and their children.
Police Regional Office 7 director Ronald Roderos yesterday went to the wake of Butron at the St. Peter Funeral Homes where he gave the medal and told Generosa that the PNP and PRO-7 will give a total of P1.4 million in cash benefits to her family.
The Butron children will also be sent to school through the PNP’s scholarship program that helps surviving family members of policemen get good education. Butron has three children, his eldest daughter is taking up nursing, his only son is in high school, and his youngest daughter is in grade school.
Generosa told reporters that Butron, despite his meager income and with the income of their small eatery in Carbon Market, they have managed to buy their children educational plans.
Butron still had to make extra income to feed his family and send his kids to school which was why he also worked as a taxi driver.
Last Monday, three men posing as his passengers tried to rob him along
Roderos, assured the family of Butron that justice will be served.
Homicide investigators, SPO2 Rolito Jumao-as and SPO1 William Homoc, said they were looking into two angles, robbery and personal motives, but for now robbery has the strongest lead.
The police theorized that Butron fought back and one of the perpetrators could have been pointing a gun at him already, but when he resisted the robber took his 9mm service pistol and shot him in the face with it.
The perpetrators quickly left without taking anything. Police recovered the victim’s cellphone, his wallet with P1,000 cash, a holster, and one empty shell of 9mm bullet inside the car.
For the personal motive, the investigators are looking into the previous grudges Butron has had in the past. According to Butron’s wife, her husband was once implicated in a shooting, but she could no longer remember the facts of the case other than the criminal case was commuted to “serious physical injury”.
Generosa also said over TV Patrol Central Visayas yesterday that there was no doctor present when her husband was brought to the Mactan Doctor’s Hospital.
But hospital director Jose Montesclaros, in the same newscast, said Butron was already suffering “massive bleeding” because of the gunshot wound on his back. He urged the Butron family to visit his office and clarify the issue. — Edwin Ian Melecio/RAE
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