PHILIPPINE National Police chief Director General Nicanor A. Bartolome won’t allow this rogue police officer to stay a minute longer in the service. His offense: refusing to pay their restaurant bill and killing a waiter who asked him to pay the chit in Baguio City.

Bartolome ordered the filing of administrative charges for grave misconduct against Inspector Gerome Sherwin Gonsadan, a 32-year-old member of the PNP Special Action Force who was reassigned to the PNP Personnel Holding and Accounting Unit while undergoing an Officer’s Basic Course at the Philippine Public Safety College based in Camp Castañeda in Silang, Cavite.

Gonsadan was also charged with murder and ordered detained at the Baguio City Jail by duty inquest prosecutor Nenita Opiana.

Cordillera Police Regional Office director  Chief Supt. Benjamin B. Magalong said Inspector Gonsadan was positively identified as the armed man who shot Bander Faisal Davoc, 30, stay-in waiter at the St. Martin’s Bread Restaurant on Bokawkan Road, Baguio City, 6:20 p.m. last Saturday.

Investigation conducted by the Baguio City Police Station headed by Senior Supt. David Q. Lacdan showed that around 6:18 p.m., Davoc went to the Baguio City Police Precinct 2 to ask for assistance in going after four men who refused to pay their bill after eating the food they ordered in the restaurant.

Davoc, a native of Pugo, La Union, also said that one of the four men pushed him after bringing out his gun and introducing himself as a police officer.

Local policemen led by Senior Inspector Dexter Ominga, accompanied by the victim, went to the scene to go after the four suspects. However, shortly after they arrived in the restaurant, they were told that the four have already boarded a taxi which headed towards the Magsaysay Avenue flyover.

The policemen went after the taxi which was caught in a traffic jam at the corner of Magsaysay Avenue.

However, while checking the taxi occupants, a gunshot rang at the corner of Bokawkan Road and Magsaysay Avenue where the officers later found the victim lying down with blood oozing from his head.

The investigation showed that unknown to the policemen and Davoc, the suspect did not board the taxi but instead waited for him before shooting him.

The suspect was seen running towards the nearby Aguila Street where he was arrested by the team of Inspector Ominga. He yielded a 9mm Glock semi-automatic pistol with serial no. SAF882 and with a magazine loaded with 11 rounds of ammunition.

Davoc was rushed by  other Baguio City policemen to the Pines Doctors Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

Lacdan said a SOCO (Scene-of-the-Crime-Operatives) team recovered a spent 9mm casing at the crime site. He said that Inspector Gonsadan was subjected to a paraffin test while his service firearm was subjected to a ballistics examination.