Following a failed payroll robbery by a suspected group of holdup men in Grace Park, Caloocan City last Monday, Northern Police District (NPD) director, Chief Supt. Samuel D. Pagdilao Jr., declared an "all-out-war" against all crime groups in the Caloocan, Malabon, Navotas, Valenzuela (Camanava) area, even as he ordered the four police chiefs to carry out more arrests and to neutralize criminal elements especially snatchers and robbers.

The failed robbery, however, resulted to a shooting incident that killed the employee of a trading company in Caloocan City, identified as Christopher Manansala, 34, company driver.
In his order, Pagdilao asked the chiefs of police and their operating and intelligence units to conduct preemptive and preventive anti-criminality operations and to bring the war against criminality right at the doorsteps of crime groups to make them feel the pressure of the law.

He also ordered his police commanders to implement in their own local jurisdictions the "Oplan  Galugad" to search lairs of crime groups and flush them out.

Initial report claimed Manansala, driver, employee of the Yushihara Trading Inc., located at 148 F. Roxas St., Grace Park, Caloocan City, was driving a brown Toyota Revo company van (WNA-101) with another employee when two men blocked the van between 5th and 6th Ave., at 9 a.m. and told him to open the van.

When he refused, the suspects allegedly positioned themselves and immediately fired at the van hitting him on the chest that caused his death, police said.

Police said the victim was trying elude the attackers but the van he was driving collided into a house in a nearby squatter area, prompting the suspects to follow and shot him.