Bullet-proof vest saves cop’s life

Thanks to a bullet-proof vest, Senior Inspector Allan Nilo Campos is alive and well.

Campos was one of the leaders of a police raiding team who swooped down on the hideout of the notorious "Waray-Waray" robbery gang blamed for several bank heists, in Antipolo City the other day.

A shootout ensued, and the gang leader, Edgar Murillo, shot Campos twice in the chest with a caliber .45 automatic. The vest did its job.

Campos, however, was not completely unscathed. Bullets hit him in the buttocks and legs but doctors at the St. Luke’s Medical Center declared him out of danger.

"Had he not been wearing a bullet-proof vest, he could have been dead by now," said Superintendent Bayani de la Rea, head of the National Capital Regional Police Office.

De la Rea said Campos was opening a wooden cabinet inside a room at the second floor of the gang’s hideout when he was met by successive gunshots by Murillo, who was hiding inside.

"Campos was shot at a distance of two feet. When he fell bleeding, Murillo continued firing at him but luckily he was not hit fatally," he added.

After the firefight, Murillo lay dead and seven of his henchmen were captured. Another gang member, Jose Pitalbo Jr., was located at a Marikina hospital where he sought treatment for a gunshot wound.