LUCENA CITY — A member of the elite Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) police team in San Pablo City, Laguna died Thursday, Nov. 24, after a colleague’s gun accidentally fired and hit him.
A spot report from San Pablo police said Police Corporal Fhrank Aldene Dela Cruz, 30, and fellow SWAT members were checking on their firearms at the village hall in Barangay 1-B around 8:30 a.m.
“They were cleaning their guns for inspection [at the time of the incident],” Police Staff Sergeant George Maramag, the case investigator, said in a phone interview.