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Secretary shot dead over P.5M

Motorcycle-riding robbers killed a company secretary in Quezon City and then took her bag which contained P500,000 in cash yesterday morning. Olivia Gilasco, 44, who worked for Bellbry Lubricants Corp. in Cainta, Rizal, died on the spot due to multiple gunshot wounds as her killers escaped on a motorcycle with no license plate. Probers from the Quezon City Police District’s Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit said they were looking at footage taken by a closed circuit television camera to identify the gunman who was wearing a motorcycle helmet. Case investigator SPO1 Eric Lazo said the incident happened at 10:30 a.m. yesterday outside the company office on Halcon Street in La Loma, Quezon City. Gilasco had just gotten off a van driven by a coworker when a man approached her and shot her. He then grabbed her shoulder bag which contained money she had just collected from the company’s customers and boarded a motorcycle driven by his cohort. Scene of the Crime Operatives recovered five casings for a 9mm pistol at the crime scene. Jeannette I. Andrade

Delivery boy sought for murder

QUEZON City policemen are looking for a 24-year-old man accused of robbing and killing a liquefied petroleum gas company owner on Tuesday night. PO2 Hermogenes Capili of the Quezon City Police District’s Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit said that when found, the body of Rodolfo Siozon, 54,  was covered in stab wounds. A kitchen knife with a broken handle was recovered nearby. Capili said that the only person who should have been with Siozon was stay-in delivery boy Cristinel Gallego who was earlier seen hurriedly leaving the crime scene on the victim’s motorcycle. Siozon’s body was found by another employee at 6 p.m. Tuesday in his bedroom at his house at 209 Racamora St. in Barangay Commonwealth. The room had been ransacked because everything inside was in disarray, leading probers to theorize that the victim’s killer had also robbed him. The numerous stab wounds as well as the broken handle of the knife indicated that the killer was very angry at the victim, the police said. Jeannette I. Andrade

St. Teresa exhibit opens Dec. 8

AN EXHIBITION of posters produced by members of the secular Carmelites on the life and spirituality of St. Teresa of Avila will be on exhibit from Dec. 8 to Jan. 15, 2014, at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Shrine Parish on Broadway, New Manila in Quezon City. The “Teresa of Avila Exhibit” is part of the fifth birth centenary on March 28, 2015, of St. Teresa, the founder of reformed Carmel. Organized by the Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites on behalf of the National Commission for the Celebration of the Fifth Birth Centenary of St. Teresa of Avila, the exhibit aims to lead the viewer toward a maturing spirituality inspired to prayer and to mission. It also wants the public to benefit from the life and selected teachings on prayer of the saint and experience her authentic Christian faith. A meditative walk through the exhibit with prayer/petition writing will also be held. Everybody is invited to the exhibit which is open daily from 7 a.m. until 5 p.m. The site can accommodate 30 viewers at a time.