A woman, believed to be a foreigner, was repeatedly run over with a car and stabbed to death early Saturday allegedly by her companion in Manila.
Manila Police District (MPD) homicide section head Chief Inspector Joselito de Ocampo said that the still unidentified fatality could be a Korean tourist based on her features.
De Ocampo described the victim to be between 20 and 25 years old, five-foot-two inches tall, chinky-eyed, slim, fair-skinned, and was clad in a gray jacket and black shirt worn over a pair of jogging pants.
The victim, he said, was declared dead on arrival by attending doctors at the Ospital ng Maynila from three stab wounds in the chest and massive head wounds apparently from having been rammed and run over by a car.
Senior Police Officer 2 Charles John Duran, case investigator, said that the incident happened around 4 a.m. along the Roxas Boulevard service road in front of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas building in Malate.
Duran revealed that before the incident, the woman had been jogging in the area followed by a black car driven by a foreign-looking man.
“She (victim) was frequently seen by people in the area to be running four times a week between 2 and 3 a.m. usually trailed by a car. That has been her routine for a month,” he said.
However, on Saturday morning, she was seen by a witness arguing with the driver of the car who had gotten off the vehicle. After several minutes the visibly irked driver boarded his car, revved up the engine and suddenly rammed the woman.
While the woman was lying bleeding on the ground beneath the front portion of the car, the driver was observed getting off his seat and taking something from his vehicle.
After a few seconds, he approached the wounded woman and started striking her chest with an object before getting on his car and again running over the woman before speeding away.
BSP security guard Jason de la Torre, who noticed the fleeing car, found the badly wounded woman and immediately took her to the nearest hospital to try to save her but the effort proved futile. The body was taken to the St. Yvan funeral parlor for autopsy and safekeeping.
De Ocampo said that investigators recovered the kitchen knife used by the suspect to stab the woman with and a mobile phone owned by the victim.
“We are sifting through the security camera footages that could identify the driver of the car and are attempting to access records on her mobile phone for her identification,” he said, adding that they already have a lead to the killer based on accounts given by witnesses.