Foreman charged with killing subordinate

A charge of homicide has been filed in court against a construction site foreman accused of stabbing to death his subordinate and drinking buddy in Quezon City.

The case against Jonathan Agorilla, 38, a resident of Barangay (village) 186 in Tala, Caloocan City, was filed Tuesday in the Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 76 under Judge Alexander Balut. Based on the information filed in court, Agorilla stabbed Aguedo Cervantes dead on Dec. 29 at a construction site on Mystic Rose Drive, Sunville I Subdivision in Barangay Culiat.

According to reports from the Quezon City Police District’s Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit, Agorilla, Cervantes and their coworkers were having a drinking spree when the victim started arguing with a fellow laborer. Agorilla intervened and prevented his two workers from coming to blows but Cervantes continued to complain.

Their drinking buddies then decided to call it a night, leaving Agorilla with Cervantes. Later on, one of the construction workers was roused from sleep by cries for help and stumbled onto Cervantes’ body, which bore several stab wounds in the chest.

Agorilla, on the other hand, was nowhere to be found. The construction foreman surrendered himself to authorities the next day after his wife urged him to do so.—Jeannette I. Andrade