Jason Ivler to undergo operation again – report

Doctors at the Quirino Memorial Medical Center in Quezon City are set to operate on slay suspect Jason Ivler on Monday, his mother said. "Bumukas yung abdomen niya. May layer siya ng bituka na na-expose (His abdomen wound opened, so a layer of his intestine was exposed). He has pneumonia and he has blood in his urine," a GMA Flash Report quoted Marlene Aguilar-Pollard as saying. Last week, doctors removed Ivler’s spleen and two centimeters of his intestines, which were ruptured due to gunshot wounds he sustained during a shootout with National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) agents during his arrest. Ivler, a 28-year-old American citizen, is the main suspect in the killing of Renato Ebarle Jr. last November 18 on Boni Serrano Avenue in Quezon City. Ebarle was the only son of Presidential Chief of Staff Renato Ebarle Sr.

Government forces had to launch a global manhunt to search for Ivler, who was found hiding in the basement of his mother’s Quezon City home last Monday. Aguilar-Pollard was slapped with obstruction of justice charges for supposedly coddling her fugitive son. Aguilar-Pollard had denied knowing Ivler’s whereabouts. "The house is big," she said in a television interview last week, denying she knew her son was hiding in their basement. Before the shooting incident, Ivler was also charged with homicide through reckless imprudence charges for the August 2004 road accident that killed Nestor Ponce Jr., a Malacañang official. The homicide case remains pending. - Sophia Dedace/RSJ/LBG, GMANews.TV