No breakthrough in QC carjacking case, says police

MANILA, Philippines — Police have found “no breakthrough” in the carjacking incident that left Teresita Teano dead in Quezon City Wednesday morning, but were checking the possibility that the suspects were ‘rookies’ , a police official said Thursday.

The police likewise disclosed that a new witness to the crime had surfaced.

Quezon City Police District director Chief Superintendent George Regis said that the description of the suspects’ modus operandi “did not fit those of known carjacking groups.”

“They could be rookie carjackers,” Regis revealed, adding that the suspects “may have panicked” when Teano resisted. He added that “ carjackers normally did not kill their victims.”

Teano was getting out of her new, red Hyundai Accent in front of the Brahma Kumaris Meditation Center in Gener St. corner Kamuning Road in Quezon City, when three suspects approached her, and demanded the car keys.

They shot and killed her when she resisted. A police report on the incident showed that Teano was run over with her own car by the fleeing suspects.