Even before Kian delos Santos, another 17-year-old student with a clean record had already been killed in a drug raid in Caloocan city at the start of the year. Police reports claim that Bolanin had run to hide in the house in the middle of a sting operation by the police. The half-Japanese Kawata had then supposedly confronted the pursuing law enforcers with an Uzi, prompting the police to shoot him dead. She said her boyfriend did not even own a gun and did not have any criminal record. According to Ordillos, Mitos had said Kawata even pleaded for his mother not to leave him.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer August 19, 2017 12:45 UTC