Senior Superintendent Policarpio Segubre, city police chief, identified the wounded suspects as Sergio Rodriguez and Edgar Medina, both residents of Barangay Sauyo, Novaliches, Quezon City.
Segubre said the two other companions of the suspects, a certain Reymar and Adrin, fled on board a motorcycle, bringing with them the P200,000 loot.
The police said a caliber .45 pistol was recovered from one of the wounded suspects.
Superintendent Ronaldo de Jesus, intelligence chief of the Angeles City police, said the suspects, on board two motorcycles, blocked the path of the Mitsubishi Pajero of handicraft exporter Donato Laxina in Barangay Cutcut and announced the holdup.
Laxina, owner of NL Basket based in Barangay Calibutbut, Bacolor town, was with his wife and six-year-old daughter when the incident happened. He had just withdrawn the money intended for his workers’ salaries from a Metrobank branch.
De Jesus said one of the suspects grabbed the bag containing the money from Donato’s wife. Before fleeing, they shot the windshield of Donato’s car.
De Jesus said policemen patrolling nearby heard the successive gunshots and immediately rushed to the scene, catching the suspects as they were about to flee.
A hot pursuit and running gunbattle ensued, leaving two of the suspects wounded, De Jesus said.
Policemen rushed the two to the Ospital ning Angeles and the St. Catherine Medical Center.
Segubre said a crack police team has been deployed in Metro Manila to arrest the two other suspects believed to have fled there.