Antipolo bakery massacre ‘solved’ – Rizal police
Residents gather around a crime scene in Cupang, Antipolo City, where police say seven unidentified male victims were found stabbed to death in a bakery on Tuesday morning, April 22, 2025. (Photo from FRANCISCA PIOL)
MANILA, Philippines — “We can consider this case solved.”
Rizal Provincial Police Office Director Col. Felipe Maraggun said this about the massacre in an Antipolo City bakery that had seven victims after a suspect surrendered to authorities.
“Naramdaman niya na we were closing in sa paghahanap sa kanya. That’s why lumutang siya sa Camp Crame kahapon, doon sa base police, and then and there inaresto ng Antipolo police station,” Maraggun said in a Radyo 630 interview on Wednesday.
(He felt we were closing in on finding him. That’s why he surfaced in Camp Crame yesterday, to the base police, and then, he was arrested by the Antipolo police station.)
According to Maraggun, the suspect—still unnamed by police—became a person of interest when the victims’ relatives pointed out that he was the only one missing from the bakery’s operating team while the others were found dead.
They all came from Masbate province and set up the bakery as a joint venture last year, Maraggun added.
“Nung gabi nung nangyari yung insidente, birthday niya (the suspect). Nag-offer siya na magpainom dito sa kanyang mga kasamahan sa bakery. Isang bote lang ng alak ang binili nila and after that, natulog na sila,” the Rizal police chief explained.
(The night of the incident, it was his birthday. He offered drinks to his companions in the bakery. They only bought one bottle of liquor, and after that, they went to sleep.)
“Dahil talagang pinagplanuhan niya yung pagsasagawa ng krimen, na-surprise itong mga biktima niya,” he added.
(Because he really did plan to commit this crime, these victims were surprised.)
It was reported previously that the suspect said he killed his fellow bakery workers because they planned to kill him first.
However, Maraggun said, “Hindi self-defense yun dahil hindi naman talaga siya aktwal na papatayin. Narinig niya lang na papatayin siya.”
(That’s not self-defense because he was not actually going to be killed. He only heard he was going to be killed.)
“Wala naman silang intensyon. Wala namang nakikita na talagang papatayin siya. Siya mismo yung nagplano sa pagsasagawa ng krimen na yun deliberately,” he added.
(They had no intention. There was no evidence that they were going to kill him. He himself planned to commit that crime deliberately.)
READ: 7 bakery workers killed in Cupang, Antipolo City stabbing
The massacre occurred in Purok 1, Zone 8 of Barangay Cupang in Antipolo City on Tuesday morning, a police report said.
In a statement later on Tuesday, the Rizal Provincial Police Office announced that the suspect was apprehended in Camp Crame at around 9 a.m. on the same day.
