Police dares 2 men in road rage case to show up, clear names

The Quezon City police has invited two men being linked to the ‘road rage’ incident on EDSA caught on video to come down to Quezon City Police District’s Station 4 to clear their names. The video showed the altercation between a taxi driver and the driver of a Mercedes-Benz M-Class SUV. At one point, the taxi driver was holding an unidentified object which may have been used as a weapon, and the Mercedes driver pulled out a gun and pointed it at the taxi driver.

This invitation to show up at the station is so taxi driver Glen Remetio can identify which man pointed a gun at him at the height of the altercation on the Edsa-Santolan flyover.

Senior Insp. Virgilio Carodan said the police already filed on behalf of Remetio complaints of physical injury, malicious mischief and grave threats against Primex Development Corp. secretary Karlvin Earnest Ang.

Ang was positively identified by Remetio through pictures shown to him of Primex employees.

Earlier, the plate number of the Mercedes Benz (KDP 313) car Ang was driving at the time of the accident was traced to the real estate company.

But as the complaint against Ang was filed, a lawyer, Derrick Delegencia, alleged that it was his client, Bill Emerson Tan, who was the man in the video, and not Ang.

Primex manager Robert de la Cruz said Tan was the son of a company director to whom the Mercedes Benz was issued.

But on Thursday, Carodan stood pat on his office’s decision to file the complaints against Ang.

Carodan added that Tan has not yet been considered a suspect in the case.

“We will not make any changes in the complaint unless the complainant [Remetio] says so,” the police official said.

“If they’re saying we’re wrong, then we will invite them [Ang and Tan] to face the taxi driver so he can identify which one is really the suspect,” Carodan said.

Neither Ang nor Tan has made a personal appearance at the Cubao police station as of this writing.

“Actually, he [Remetio] doesn’t really want this to become a big issue. He just wants the suspect to face him, apologize, and pay for the damages,” Carodan said.

With report by Jaymee T. Gamil