MANILA, Philippines — Rights groups on Tuesday warned the police against harassing Dr. Raquel Fortun, the forensic pathologist who autopsied the body of Jerhode “Jemboy” Baltazar, a 17-year-old boy shot dead by Navotas lawmen who mistook him for a murder suspect on Aug. 2. ADVERTISEMENT“By the way, the Navotas police visited me for Jemboy’s autopsy, and the Caloocan police for Kian’s [delos Santos] bullet. Just putting this out there for whatever protection this disclosure could offer,” Fortun said in a post on X (formerly Twitter). Fortun, who heads UP Manila’s College of Pathology, had conducted the autopsy at the request of Baltazar’s family. Navotas police chief Col. Allan Umipig earlier admitted that his men committed an error when they shot Baltazar, whom they mistook for a murder suspect they were chasing.
