The police identified on Friday one of the men involved in the strafing of the house of Social Security System (SSS) president Romulo Neri as a member of a breakaway group of the New People’s Army (NPA) and have filed multiple charges against the suspect.

Quezon City Police District (QCPD) director Chief Supt. Elmo San Diego identified the suspect as Daniel Joseph Navarro, from Mexico, Pampanga, an alleged member of the Robolusyunaryong Hukbong Bayan (RHB) based in Mexico, Pampanga.

San Diego said they filed charges of attempted murder, robbery, serious illegal detention, and carnapping against Navarro before the Quezon City Prosecutor’s Office on Thursday.

The QCPD chief said Navarro was positively identified by Neri’s driver-bodyguard Benjamin Santillan as the person who pointed a gun at him and ordered him to drop to the ground during the strafing incident on the morning of October 9 at the SSS president’s home in Quezon City.

Driver Ronald Meneses also identified Navarro as one of the two persons who carjacked his maroon Hyundai van (XLC-169) and used it as one of the vehicles of the suspects.

Meneses recounted that on the day of the strafing, he was held for 12 hours at a warehouse at No. 47 Ragang St., Barangay Manresa, Quezon City but managed to escape.

Chief Insp. Benjamin Elenzano, deputy chief of the QCPD’s Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit (CIDU), said they found out that the suspects paid P105,000 for the use of the warehouse.

Elenzano said they were able to get hold of a picture of Navarro from records of the Land Transportation Office (LTO).

After having acquired the picture of Navarro, the photograph was presented to both Santillan and Meneses who both positively identified him among the gallery of suspects.

Citing information from Mexico, Pampanga police, the RHB is a breakaway group of the NPA which is also known as the Marxist Leninist Party of the Philippines under the command and leadership of a certain Lenin Salas.