POLICE FILES

Woman stabbed dead in Lapu home

A WOMAN was found dead with a stab wound in the chest inside her house in barangay Basak, Lapu-Lapu City.

Genelyn Zosobrado was discovered dead by her 9-year-old son around 7 a.m. yesterday. The woman may have been killed around 4 a.m., said police.

The woman’s live-in partner, Arvin Empanado, 31, was tagged as suspect. The man was nowhere to be found when the woman’s body was found.

A screw driver with bloodstains was recovered by police in the house.

Police said jealousy could be the motive of the killing.

Police said the couple had been fighting. The man had accused the woman of having an affair with another man.

Police said the woman had once told a neighbor that she would leave her live-in partner because of his attitude.

The couple had three children. Zosobrado had a son from her former live-in partner. /CORRESPONDENT NORMAN V. MENDOZA

SIBONGA FARMER KILLED

A 43-YEAR-OLD farmer was shot dead last Friday in barangay Mangyan, Sibonga town, southern Cebu.

Demeterio Cabillo had just brought his daughter to school and was walking home when unidentified assailants waylaid him.

The farmer had three gunshot wounds in the chest.

No one was able to see the crime as the shooting happened in a bushy area, said police.

Police are still investigating the case. /CORRESPONDENT RHEA RUTH V. ROSELL