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Artist\u2019s sketch of the two suspected gunmen who killed journalist Rubylita Garcia. The city government has offered a P50,000 reward for any information that might help authorities. PROVIDED BY THE BACOOR CITY POLICE<\/p><\/div>\n

MANILA, Philippines\u2014 We got the wrong man.<\/p>\n

The Cavite police on Tuesday night said the man they arrested as a suspect in the killing of reporter Rubylita Garcia was not positively identified by the family of Garcia.<\/p>\n

Aaron Cruz was arrested by the Cavite City police on Tuesday afternoon–a day after the Philippine National Police released the artist’s sketch of Garcia’s killers.<\/p>\n

Tristan Garcia, 28, said his 10-year-old daughter and Garcia\u2019s sister-in-law, who both saw how Garcia, a correspondent of the tabloid Remate, was shot several times in her residence on Sunday, said the police arrested the wrong person.<\/p>\n

\u201cTaas lang po ang nakuha (only the height matched),\u201d he said, referring to gunman\u2019s and that of the man the police arrested around 4 p.m. in Cavite City.<\/p>\n

Cavite police information officer Superintendent Gerardo Umayao, in an earlier phone interview, confirmed that they arrested a possible suspect in Garcia\u2019s slay, basing it on the cartographic sketch and the physical description provided to them by the witnesses.<\/p>\n

In a phone interview, Cavite Governor Juanito Victor Remulla, who was at the police headquarters when Garcia\u2019s family arrived, called it a \u201cfalse positive\u201d arrest.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is because everything matched, from the height, weight, their physical features, except the tattoos,\u201d Remulla said.<\/p>\n

He said the gunman, according to the witnesses, had star tattoos on the left side of his neck, but the one arrested today had a cross tattoo on the right side of his neck.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe man who shot (Garcia) has a smooth face. This one\u2019s rough,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Even so, Remulla said the police had recovered illegal drugs from the man and thus would still be facing charges.<\/p>\n

Before she died from her gunshot wounds, Garcia said she thought Supt. Conrado Villanueva, the police chief of Tanza town, could have ordered the attack on her house on Sunday morning, her son said on Monday.<\/p>\n

Villanueva has been asked to step aside beginning Monday, said Senior Supt. Joselito Esquivel, the Cavite police director. \u201cHe was administratively relieved, although he is not a suspect,\u201d Esquivel said in a phone interview.<\/p>\n\n

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