Investigators identified the slain suspect as Aljon Martinez, a resident of Paliparan 2, Dasmariñas, Cavite, and an alleged member of the Waray-Waray kidnap-for-ransom group.
Police Officer 3 Roland Abraham said a Police Anti-Crime Emergency Response (PACER) team and officers from the Region 4-Intelligence and Investigation Division were in Barangay Pamplona I in Las Piñas last Tuesday night to arrest martinez.
The arrest warrant was issued by Judge Stella Cabuco Andres of the San Pedro Regional Trial Court in Laguna.
At around 7:15 p.m., police spotted the suspect in front of a house on Balagtas street.
Upon seeing the arresting officers, the suspect ran toward a house owned by a certain Leonida Sayman.
The suspect was killed in the ensuing shootout.
Recovered from the scene was a caliber .45 pistol owned by the suspect.
Martinez had been under surveillance by PACER for two weeks.