2 suspects nabbed for teen's death
By Felipe V. Celino
Visayas Bureau
First Posted 23:32:00 11/23/2008
Filed Under: Crime, Murder
ROXAS CITY, Philippines--Police have arrested two of the suspects in the killing of a 15-year-old Filipino-Chinese student and the mauling of her mother last Nov. 18.
Chief Inspector Leo Batiles, the Roxas City police commander, said a 17-year-old from Barangay (Village) Bayuyan, Estancia town in Iloilo, and another suspect, Jonathan Parreño, 27, of Sagay, Negros Occidental, were arrested on Saturday. (The Philippine Daily Inquirer is withholding the name of the minor suspect on account of his age.)
Batiles alleged that the minor and Parreño, who were helpers in the mother’s buy-and-sell business located at the Teodoro Arcenas Trade Center (TATC) in Roxas City, killed Bina Weng, a student of the Capiz Commercial School, and beat her mother Letty.
Bina was declared dead on arrival at Roxas Memorial Provincial Hospital (RMPH). She sustained multiple cuts and bruises on the head.
Letty, also known as Letty Hung, 36, sustained cuts and bruises and remains confined at Saint Anthony College Hospital.
The police arrested the minor when he went to the TATC stall of the Wengs reportedly to get his salary.
Parreño was arrested at the house of his friend in the village of Ilaya, Ivisan, Capiz.
Batiles said they were still looking for the victims' driver, Isidro Tolitol, 30, of Butungan village, Estancia, considered the prime suspect.
According to Batiles, the minor admitted having searched for money inside the victims' apartment but he pointed at Tolitol as the one who killed Bina and mauled Letty.
Parreño, on the other hand, claimed he merely acted as lookout, Batiles added. The three parted ways after the killings.
Earlier, security guard Raffy Aninacion, 21, of the Lion Heart Security Agency detailed at the victim's rented apartment on Aguinaldo Street, told the police that he saw the two suspects leaving the place in a hurry.
Prior to the killings, Aninacion said, a man approached and engaged him in a conversation. The man left upon seeing the suspects were also leaving the area.
The police recovered from the crime scene a baseball cap, which could have been worn by one of the suspects, two pairs of bloodstained white gloves and a backpack containing the clothes of the driver.
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