00:00The alleged accomplice of the convicted killer of broadcaster Percy Lapid dies as police
00:11tried to arrest him on Sunday, August 11.
00:13In an interview with DZBB, NCR Police Chief Major General Jose Melencio Nartates Jr. said
00:19the suspect, Jake Mendoza, died by suicide.
00:22This was hours after negotiations with the police on orders to arrest Mendoza in Lipa,
00:27Batangas.
00:28Nartates Jr. said Mendoza held his partner and child hostage during the negotiation.
00:33Police say Mendoza was the accomplice of Joel Escorial, who was convicted of killing Lapid
00:37in May.
00:38Lapid was driving near his home in Las Pinas when he was shot dead in October 2022.
00:43His real name was Percy Mabasa.
00:45He was the second journalist known to have been killed under the Marcos administration.
