Bullet in mom’s wall matches slug in road slay

In the end, it is the bullet he fired inside his mother’s house that could link him to the road-rage murder.

The pistol found at the house of Marlene Aguilar where her son Jason Ivler was arrested in January 2010 was the same firearm used to shoot Renato Victor Ebarle Jr. dead in a traffic altercation two months earlier.

This was according to a ballistics expert who examined the two bullets found in Ebarle’s body and his vehicle, and a third bullet from the .45-cal. Kimber pistol Ivler used when he engaged the arresting team in a shootout.

In his court testimony Friday, Ronan Masacupan of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) said the bullets in the victim’s body, his Toyota Landcruiser, and the one that got embedded in the wall of Aguilar’s house in the shootout, came from the same gun.

“Comparative examinations of the evidence and the test bullet slugs from the Kimber pistol resulted in positive results,” the NBI officer said before Judge Luisito Cortez of Quezon City Regional Trial Court-Branch 84.

Masacupan said he was tasked to examine firearms and other evidence found at the Aguilar house in Blue Ridge Subdivision, Quezon City, on Jan. 18, 2010, the day Ivler was arrested by NBI agents.

Also found at the house was a Rock River arms rifle, another .45-cal. pistol, and several bullets and magazines.

The 28-year-old Ivler is charged with killing Ebarle in a heated traffic altercation in Santolan, Quezon City, on Nov. 18, 2009.

The defense panel represented by lawyer Priscilla Marie Abante said they will cross-examine Masacupan in the next hearing on July 24.—With Daphne Magturo