[7] Reynaldo Parojinog was among the persons named by President Rodrigo Duterte on August 7, 2016, for alleged involvement in the illegal drug trade.
[17] A cellphone video, obtained by GMA News, was recorded during the raid showing Vice Mayor Nova Princess Parojinog-Echavez, Reynaldo's daughter, suddenly getting something from her bag while the police were conducting an inspection in her room inside her house.
[19] The resulting incident killed all 15 people including Reynaldo Parojinog Sr., his wife Susan, and his siblings Octavio Jr. and Mona.
[20] Ozamiz City police chief Jovie Espenido admitted in the media that they had destroyed the CCTV cameras installed in the house in order to protect the identities of the informants who helped them in the operation.
[21] However, Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Ronald dela Rosa states that the way of destroying the CCTV cameras are "wrong".
[22] Vice Mayor Parojinog-Echavez appealed to President Rodrigo Duterte and the Senate to investigate the deaths of 15 including four of her family members.
[26] In an interview on ABS-CBN News, according to former hitman and drug courier known only as alias "Noel", many of his colleagues working for Parojinog gone missing and unable to get home.
[33] The motion filed by the Parojinog siblings to attend the wake of their parents and other family members on August 13 has been denied by Ozamiz Regional Trial Court.
[38] An unnamed survivor and a relative of the Parojinogs said in TV interviews that there was no exchange of gunfire as the police invades and started shooting everyone inside the mayor's house.
He stressed that the circumstances of the incident are similar to the fate of Albuera, Leyte Mayor Rolando Espinosa, who was killed in November 2016.
[44] On August 1, de Lima, through the handwritten statement, said that the raid were “massacre” and a “plain and simple extermination” of Duterte's former comrades in vigilantism.