"Our faith in God has all the more strengthened and we still have confidence in the country’s policemen who have been doing their duty especially to those who are in immediate need of assistance," said 57-year-old former policeman Rolando Factor, 57, who lost his sons Arvin and John Allen in the attack.
The two, along with their cousin John Bismark Chan, friends Sherwin Franco and Jerome Garcia were engaged in a drinking session when armed men barged inside the Factor Compound in Barangay Don Galo, Parañaque at around 1:30 a.m.
The brothers, Chan and Franco died from multiple gunshot wounds in the body, while Garcia was seriously wounded.
The elder Factor said he is a cousin of Parañaque Mayor Florencio Bernabe.
He works as a security officer at the Mayor’s Office.
Factor said that what had happened to his sons was difficult to accept at first, but the family has started to accept the fate of Arvin and John Allen.
Nelson Lacambra, the mayor’s spokesman, said the police have already been instructed to pursue and arrest those reponsible.
Parañaque police chief Superintendent Ronald Estilles said they are track down the gunmen, who had reportedly engaged the victims in a heated argument over a parking incident.
Senior Police Officer 3 Elpidio Soquiña leads the team conducting follow-up operations on the case. – Rhodina Villanueva