Suspect in slay of campus queen nabbed

ANGELES CITY—Two children on Friday have positively identified before the police the suspect in the killing of a college student in her dormitory here last March.

Senior Superintendent Jose Hidalgo Jr., this city’s police director, said the minors, aged 10 and 12, pointed to Rolando Estrada, 32, as the man they saw rushing out bloodied from the Baculi apartment on at past 4 p.m. last Saturday.

Hidalgo announced the arrest of Estrada at 6:35 p.m. on Friday.

Estrada, who went by the name Porontong, is a resident of Barangay Lourdes, the same village where apartment of Danielle Louise Conde is located.

Hidalgo said Estrada went to the police station at past noon on Friday in an apparent bid to clear his self after a composite sketch by the police matched his features.

Conde, 17, was an engineering student, campus queen and a Taekwando athlete at the Holy Angel University here.

She is due to be buried tomorrow, March 9, in her hometown of Tarlac.

Friends of Conde demanded justice via Facebook.

Former Capas Mayor Reynaldo Catacutan has readied a P100,000 reward for the children.

Angeles City Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan thanked Hidalgo’s team for “solving” the case in six days.