POLICE will be filing parricide charges against the man who claimed his wife suffered a heart attack when he brought her to a hospital but was found out to have gunshot wounds.
Based on the autopsy report, Endridia Alpar died because of gunshot wounds.
Senior Supt. Patrocinio Comendador, chief of the Cebu Provincial Police Office (CPPO), said the autopsy showed that there was foul play involved and that Francisco Alpar was involved in wife’s death.
“So far, there is no other suspect except the husband,” Comendador said.
Comendador said police will also conduct an investigation to determine the possible liability of the doctor who failed to notice that the woman had gunshot wounds.
Francisco claimed that his wife suffered a heart attack when he brought her to the Minglanilla District Hospital on Tuesday night.
The woman was declared dead at the hospital. It was in the funeral parlor that it was found out that the woman had gunshot wounds while the body was about to be embalmed.
Senior Supt. Nestor Sator, medico-legal officer, said two pellets which may have come from an improvised shotgun were extracted from the body of Endridia.
Sator said one of the pellet was recovered in the lungs while the other one was in the abodomen.
Sator said the gunshot wounds were fatal.
He said based on his examination, the victim was shot from underneath since the trajectory of the bullet was upward.
Francisco is currently detained at the Naga City police station after he was charged of obstruction of justice for failing to immediately report the incident.
Francisco claimed there was no foul play.
Police are looking for a neighbor of the couple in barangay West Poblacion who allegedly kept the gun used in the shooting.