3 women wounded in home attack; family driver tagged

A woman was in critical condition while her teenage daughter and a female cousin were wounded by three armed men who entered their Quezon City home around midnight Friday.

The police have tagged the victims’ family driver as the prime suspect, who was seen leaving the house in Union Village, Barangay Culiat, shortly after the attack and who reportedly had a series of arguments earlier with his employer.

Cindy Nakayama, 49, was shot in the head and remained unconscious as of press time at New Era Hospital, while her 15-year-old daughter Christine and cousin Elvira Umbas, 56, sustained cuts and stab wounds.

Supt. Michael Macapagal of the Quezon City Police District’s Talipapa station said witnesses saw the family driver Mark Andrew Dalde and two other men leaving the house where screams and a gunshot were earlier heard.

The three women were found wounded on the second floor and the house showed no signs that it was robbed, Macapagal said.

Quoting the relatives, the officer said Dalde was hired by the elder Nakayama six months ago and proved to be “arrogant” to the point of engaging his employer in heated arguments recently.