QC cop, watchman linked to teen’s murder

A policeman and a barangay watchman are facing charges in the Quezon City prosecutor’s office for the death of a teenager who was found on a grassy lot with stab wounds to his chest.

SPO1 Ernesto Halili of the Batasan police station and Eduardo Bodoso, a watchman of Barangay Payatas B, have been linked to the murder of Jefferson delos Santos, 17, who was  kidnapped  on  April 10 by four men and found the next day on a lot owned by Banco Filipino in Barangay Payatas, Quezon City.

Case investigator PO2 Anthony Tejerero said Halili and Bodoso, along with two others, were seen by the victim’s parents walking away from the crime scene as they were searching for their son.

But when the Delos Santos couple asked the men if they saw the victim, the four men allegedly ignored them. Tejerero said the parents knew the two suspects as they all lived in the same community.

The victim was abducted   in full view of his boss, Ariel Concepcion, who hired the teenager to gather vegetables on the lot where he was found that would later be sold.

The two were on Concepcion’s vehicle after harvesting vegetables from the lot when four men blocked their path and kidnapped Delos Santos.

His body was found at 5:50 a.m by his mother.

Tejerero noted that the victim died of head injuries and stab wounds to the chest.

A screw driver, which is still being examined for traces of blood, was recovered near the teenager’s body.