MANILA – Police on Monday evening identified the slain suspect in Sunday's shootout at the Greenbelt 5 heist of a luxury watch store.

Senior Superintendent Leonardo Espina, Philippine National Police spokesman, in a text message said the slain suspect is Armando Domingo y Manangan, 32 years old, reportedly from San Mariano town in Isabela province.
 
Espina said that an alleged relative of the slain suspect had called up Veronica Funeral Parlor seeking to claim the body.
 
Domingo reportedly sustained 6 bullet wounds, including the head wound inflicted by Police Officer 1 Efren Ceniza, a security detail of Taguig City Mayor Freddie Tinga, who was in the mall during the robbery.
 
The official autopsy report, however, has yet to be released by the police.
 
Ceniza, together with Senior Police Officer 1 Cesar Tiglao, engaged the heavily-armed robbers with their pistols only. The two cops apparently interrupted the robbery and forced the robbers to immediately escape.
 
Notorious gangs
 
Police did not indicate if the slain robber is a member of the groups that are being eyed as responsible for the robbery at the posh mall.
 
Chief Inspector Dennil Macalintal, Makati City police homicide division chief, had earlier said Sunday's robbery at a Rolex store inGreenbelt 5 mall had all the markings of the combined forces of Alvin Flores and Colangco groups, which, he said, were notorious criminal syndicates.
 
"That is their modus operandi. Members of the [Alvin Flores group] wear black fatigues and bomb squad uniforms and masks," Macalintal told ABS-CBN. He said at least 10 robbers broke into the Rolex store at the mall, according to closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage taken at the site.
 
The robbers were reportedly able to cart away 64 pieces of expensive watches estimated to be worth P6 million.
 
Identification plates removed
 
Makati City police also confirmed that 2 getaway vehicles abandoned by the robbers after their escape were recovered in MagallanesSunday afternoon.
The recovered vehicles were a blue Honda Civic and a silver Toyota, which were reportedly abandoned by the Greenbelt 5 robbery suspects.
 
Although the vehicle identification plates of the vehicles were no longer found, police said Greenbelt mall security had a record of the plates used--plate number WKM 262 for the Honda vehicle, and plate number XGR 613 for the Toyota vehicle.
 
Witnesses said that the suspects parked the vehicles at Lapu-Lapu Street in Magallanes Village Sunday and transferred to a black Isuzu Bighorn with plate number XND 586.
 
Police said that they will also check if the vehicles were carjacked.
 
Makati police also that the condition of the bystander injured during the shootout at Greenbelt 5 has improved. Reno Tolentino reportedly suffered 3 bullet wounds to his feet.
 
Trained?
 
Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay, meanwhile, said that he believes that the robbers had either military or police training.
 
While he was dismayed at the crime incident which occurred in his area, he said he cannot fully blame police. He said intense planning by the robbers was apparently conducted before the robbery.
 
Binay has ordered the implementation of more stringent security measures at malls in the country’s premiere financial district. With reports from Jing Castañeda, Julius Babao and Cecille Lardizabal, ABS-CBN News