84th PNP-SAF trooper shoots comrade

Zamboanga City, Philippines – A member of the Philippine National Police – Special Action Force (SAF-PNP) PO3 Brendonlord S. Supetran, 31 yrs old, married, was shot and critically wounded with a gunshot by the suspect identified as PO3 Benwel B. Jupuri, 37 yrs old, married after the heated argument Sunday night inside their barracks at Barangay Upper Calarian, Zamboanga City, Sr. Insp. Hingming Lajaali said.

Both are assigned with the 84th Special Action Company (SAC) currently holding camp at Lopez. The 84th SAC was the assault team that killed Zulkifli bin Hir, alias Marwan, at dawn last January 25, 2015 in Mamasapano, Maguindanao, a raid that preceded a bloody encounter between PNP-SAF commandos and Moro rebels which left 44 SAF troopers, 18 Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) fighters and four civilians dead.

Supetran suffered gunshot wound on his stomach and was brought by his fellow policemen to Zamboanga Doctor’s Hospital for treatment. Initial investigation showed that the victim and the suspect were both under the influence of liquor when they engaged into a heated argument. The victim attacked the suspect first with a fist blow and challenged him to a fistfight to which the suspect agreed instead the suspect took his government-issued Glock 9mm Pistol and shot the victim.