NATIONAL Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) chief Director Nicanor Bartolome has ordered the police to expand to a wider area their search for the man accused of killing a GMA 7 employee and wounding two more people on Saturday night in Caloocan City.
From Metro Manila, police tracker teams have fanned out to Central Luzon, the Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal and Quezon) area and Mimaropa (Mindoro Occidental, Mindoro Oriental, Marinduque, Romblon and Palawan) to look for Cezar Baguio.
Baguio, a 25-year-old resident of Kapac Sabalo in Dagat-dagatan, Caloocan City, ran amuck on Saturday night following a drinking spree.
He grabbed two knives from his house and started stabbing people he met in the street.
Edwin Ramos, 47, a program coordinator of GMA 7’s AM radio dzBB, was killed after he sustained a stab wound in the abdomen.
Ramos was just visiting his girlfriend in the area when he was attacked.
Two more people—Marvin Sauza, 37; and Emelita Rios, 54—were wounded.
Caloocan police chief Senior Supt. Jude Santos told the Inquirer that aside from the tracker teams, operatives from the city police were also in constant communication with Baguio’s relatives in Caloocan, convincing them to persuade their relative to give himself up.
At press time, Santos said they had yet to receive word that Baguio would soon turn himself in to authorities.
The other day, murder, attempted murder and frustrated murder charges were filed against him with the city prosecutor’s office.
Meanwhile, the Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC), an anticrime watchdog, has expressed its intention to help Ramos’ family file charges of negligence against Tondo General Hospital.
The charges stem from reports that Ramos had to be transferred to Jose Reyes Memorial Medical Center after he was turned away by the government-run hospital.
He lost a lot of blood as a result, Dante Jimenez, VACC chair, told the Inquirer in a phone interview.