Manila: Former President and now Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada offered P100,000 (Dh8,333.40) for the arrest of a military reservist who was identified for the shooting and death of a cyclist in a road rage incident in Manila.

“The award for Vhon Tanto’s head was set at P100,000 (Dh8,333.40) after he failed to surrender days after the shooting incident,” said Manila Police District (MPD) Senior Superintendent Joel Coronel.

The bounty was announced late Wednesday, three days after Tanto, 39, was identified as the driver of a red Hyundai Eon who blocked, boxed, shot, and killed Mark Vincent Garalde, while the latter was aboard his bicycle on P. Casal Street, Quiapo district at 9.30 Monday night.

According to the images captured by a closed-circuit-television footage which went viral for days, Tanto blocked Garalde’s bicycle that nearly hit the car.

As they chased and boxed each other on the road, Garalde overpowered Tanto. When Tanto disengaged himself, he entered his car. The cyclist had time to peer inside the car as he tried to leave aboard his bike. But in a second, Tanto rushed out from his car with a gun and shot Garalde once in the head, and four more on his body that fell on the pavement.

The shooting incident also injured a bystander, Rocel Bondoc, 18, who remained in a critical condition at Manila’s Mary Chiles Hospital.

The police found Tanto’s abandoned car at the house of his brother-in-law in Nueva Vizcaya, northern Luzon last July 26, said Coronel.

“Tanto is armed and dangerous. He has two licensed guns, calibre .45 pistol and calibre .40 Glock pistol,” said Coronel, adding, “Army officials have ordered military units to join the police in a manhunt for Tanto. They were ordered to use deadly force if necessary.”

“Tanto is a Philippine Army reservist with the rank of private. He was assigned with the 1301st Community Defense Centre based in Metro Manila’s northern suburban Caloocan City,” said Army chief Lt. Gen. Eduardo Año.

The Army Reserve Command began a manhunt for him after he went missing from his house on Arlegui Street, Manila right after the shooting incident, said Año.

Authorities have blamed proliferation of firearms for fatal road rage incidents in Metro Manila.