Village chief, widow dead in ‘crime of passion’
By Jhunnex Napallacan
An affair between a village chief and a widow ended on Thursday in what the police described as a “crime of passion.”
An affair between a village chief and a widow ended on Thursday in what the police described as a “crime of passion.”
Graft-tainted ex-presidents, a dictator’s unrepentant wife and politicians charged with crimes such as murder and child rape were among the winners in the Philippines’ mid-term elections.
An unpaid election “allowance” reportedly drove a security aide of a barangay official to a shooting spree at a barangay hall that left two people dead and three others wounded in Dasmariñas City, Cavite, police said.
A teenage vendor was killed Wednesday morning after he and two drinking buddies had apparently picked the wrong person to bully and allegedly extort money from.
A barangay captain died while his cousin was wounded when an unidentified assailant fired at them in Taal town, Batangas on Friday night, the police said.
The body count is rising in election-related cases of violence nationwide. In Quezon, at least two supporters of reelectionist Gov. David Suarez were gunned down on Monday, prompting the highest Church official in the province to express alarm.
A dentist was shot dead by a lone gunman inside his clinic in Pasay City before noon Tuesday, the police said.
A fishball vendor, apparently fed up with one of his customer’s bullying, stabbed his tormentor to death in a drunken rage Friday night in Quezon City after the victim made some snide remarks about him, police said.
Members of the family of slain Infanta Mayor Ruperto Martinez have rejected the offer of a group to arrange a meeting between them and the teenager who has been accepted as a government witness.
Former Senior Superintendent Cezar Mancao II said he felt better as a moving target outside of jail because efforts to reach out to Senator Panfilo Lacson, whom he had implicated in the Dacer-Corbito murder case, had proven futile and he would have been an easier target if he had been transferred to the Manila City jail as recently ordered by a court.
Investigators have ruled out politics or the upcoming elections as a motive in Thursday night’s attack by two gunmen on a lawyer at a busy intersection in the town of Mexico, the town’s chief of police said Friday.
A dismissed National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) agent, who also acted as a bodyguard of the controversial star witness to the Vizconde Massacre, was shot dead on Saturday while he was “working out” at a gym in Makati city.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) junked the request of Pangasinan Gov. Amado Espino Jr., Rep. Jesus Celeste and newspaperman Jaime Aquino to suspend the preliminary investigation of the December 2012 murder of Infanta Mayor Ruperto Martinez, saying a complaint had already been filed against them.
