receptive, holding a press conference with Gen. Florendo in the hotel lobby despite claiming to have suffered a wound from an ambush by government forces while on the road. However gunfire erupted a few hours later at the nearby Balzain Bridge, sparking heavy fighting across the city that culminated with government troops storming the hotel. Florendo was then killed in the ensuing crossfire. The fighting left 14 people dead and wounded twenty, while Aguinaldo fled to the mountains with a militia three hundred strong. Aftermath Florendo's body was returned to Manila after the incident and was buried with full military honors at the Libingan ng mga Bayani on March 10. Aguinaldo spent the next three months in hiding until he finally surrendered at the Cagayan provincial capitol but was later released on bail. While on the run, he took responsibility for Florendo's death, calling it a ″terrible mistake″, although the actual killer of Florendo was never definitively identified. He later won reelection by a landslide in the 1992 elections, despite attempts to disqualify him from running. He was eventually acquitted of wrongdoing by the Supreme Court, which adopted a legal doctrine, later named after him, that a public official cannot be removed for administrative misconduct committed during a prior term since his re-election to office operates as a condonation of his past misconduct. The ruling was subsequently applied to similar cases involving elected officials until it was reversed by the Supreme Court in 2016. Aguinaldo stayed on as Governor until 1998, when he successfully ran and won as representative of Cagayan's 3rd congressional district, serving until his assassination by communist rebels in Tuguegarao, shortly after losing his reelection bid in 2001. The Hotel Delfino remains a functioning hotel run by the Ting family, members of which have served as mayors of Tuguegarao for several decades, including at the time of the siege. In popular culture The incident is featured, albeit with some inaccuracies, in the climax of Aguinaldo's 1993 biopic Aguinaldo: The True-to-Life Story of Gov. Rodolfo Aguinaldo of Cagayan, starring Lito Lapid as Aguinaldo and Ramil Rodriguez as an unnamed Department of the Interior and Local Government Secretary who serves as a composite of Florendo. Aguinaldo himself appears at the beginning of the film to make an opening statement and is shown taking the oath of office at the ending of the film. Some scenes were shot in Tuguegarao