According to Dela Rosa, the arrest of CSG vigilantes for the murder of 16-year-old Charlie Saladaga – found shot in the face inside a sack along Isla Puting Bato – was proof cops had little to do with the rising death toll. Official numbers from the PNP at the time of the CSG arrests listed more than 7,000 killed in the first seven months of the drug war. At least 2,555 were dead in the hands of police during “legitimate operations.” Another 3,603 were listed as deaths under investigation, or DUIs, the euphemism the government began using to replace the more politically tenuous “extrajudicial killings.”