The suspect – identified as Javier Gallent, 38, divorced, jobless – is a former player of the Philippine Basketball League (PBL) in the late 90’s and the University Athletic Association of the Philippines for Adamson University. He is a naturalized Filipino of Spanish descent and resides at No. 3  Angeles St., Alabang Hills

He was cornered by members of the Criminal Investigation Unit (CIU) after a two-hour chase which ended at 1 p.m. last Monday at Merville St., Parañaque City.

Yesterday, Gallent was presented to Mayor Jaime Fresnedi by the police led by Col. Roberto Rongavilla. The suspect is facing robbery with homicide charges filed before the city’s Regional Trial Court.

Last Sunday at about 8:30 a.m., security men of Alabang Hills Village saw Gallent enter the village where he resides on board a white taxi with license plate TYB 475. After about 10 minutes, guards said they heard a gunshot from somewhere inside the village.

At 9:07 a.m. guards saw the taxi leave the village with Gallent on the driver’s seat. At 9:15 a.m., village guards found a body with a gunshot wound on the nape at the pavement near No. 24 Baguio St., Alabang Hills. The body did not bear any identification cards.

Guards alerted the police at about 9:40 a.m. who promptly went to the scene to gather data.

The police later identified the victim as Aloreto Dinobo, 48, taxi driver, of Area J. Block 9, Lot 4, Barangay Maderan Samaka Site, GMA, Cavite.

The police recovered an abandoned taxi with blood stains on the drivers’s seat inside the Aguilar Compound in Barangay Putatan.

Police then tailed Gallent whom they saw standing outside the Alabang Hills Village at 11 a.m.

Village homeowners president Rafael Tinio thanked the police for the speedy resolution of the case. They said Gallent is also a suspect in a number of robbery cases in the village as well as in a nearby village.

Gallent denied the accusations, telling police that a taxi driver dropped him off at his house at about 8:40 a.m. past Sunday.He said he just changed clothes in his house and later left again to go to his friend’s house in Ayala, Alabang where he stayed the whole day.