His two bodyguards were killed while another was seriously wounded by four armed men, which included a policeman assigned to the Naval police headquarters who was arrested.

Chong accused his family's political enemies for the attack, since his father filed a 2007 graft case against Biliran Gov.

[8] In 2019, the National Bureau of Investigation recommended murder charges against 22 policemen for the killing, saying that it was a rubout and not an encounter, as claimed by the police.

[9] Later that year, the Antipolo Regional Trial Court issued an arrest warrant for 20 police officers, each had charged with two counts of murder, with no bail recommended;[10] twelve of them have been surrendered.

[11][12] On March 15, 2024, Ace Barbers and Johnny Pimentel demanded that Chong should apologize to First Lady Liza Araneta Marcos over his “slap threat" during the Apollo Quiboloy prayer rally.

In a disbarment complaint letter to Chief Justice Alexander Gesmundo, Bureau of Immigration Commissioner Daniel Laogan said Chong’s remarks were “unethical” and violated A.M. No.