“These are not even serial killers, they are mad killers. They are monsters,” a Quezon City police investigator angrily described the shooters who chose random targets, including a man and a woman on a motorcycle in an errand to buy medicine and a woman who was just waiting for a ride outside her subdivision.
According to a report from the Quezon City Police District Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit (QCPD-CIDU), the killing spree started at around 1:30 a.m. and ended at 2:30 a.m., with the death of a scavenger who was shot in the head.
QCPD-CIDU head Chief Inspector Rodelio Marcelo told the Inquirer that what gave them the lead that the killings were the work of the same set of killers were the following:
*Proximity of the four incidents
*The short lapse of time between the killings
*The same weapon choice: a pistol
Killed were:
*Alodia Grace Go, 37, of Adrian Street, Fairmont Subdivision in Barangay (village) North Fairview
*Angelie Auguis, 35, of Imus in Cavite
*Gelmer Gabronino, 35, of Camarin, Caloocan City
* Rodelio dela Cruz, 34, of Barangay Baesa
*A still unidentified man, who was described to be between 25 and 30 years old, five-foot-five inches tall, slim, fair-skinned and clad in gray shirt worn over a pair of checkered short pants
According to QCPD-CIDU head Chief Inspector Rodelio Marcelo, the first victim was the motorcycle-riding Rodelio Dela Cruz who was repeatedly shot by one of two motorcycle-riders near the Power Grid Electrical Corporation on Commonwealth Avenue in Barangay North Fairview.
When found by a security guard in a nearby establishment, alerted to gunfire followed by the sound of a motorcycle speeding away, Dela Cruz was slumped on the pavement near his blue Rusi motorcycle (8995-XA), his head and body riddled with bullets.
Marcelo said that a few minutes later, Alodia Grace Go was shot in the neck and head also by motorcycle-riding men while she was standing at the corner of Regalado Avenue and Bronx Street just outside Fairmont Subdivision.
Some 50 meters away, Gelmer Gabronino and Angelie Auguis were on a motorcycle along the SM Fairview-bound lane of Regalado Avenue to buy medicine when they were shot by another pair of motorcycle riders in the head. Both victims died instantly, the QCPD-CIDU head said.
At around 2:30 a.m. a male scavenger was sifting through a garbage pile along Commonwealth Avenue in Barangay Fairview, over 200 meters away from the last incident, and collecting recyclable materials when one of two men on a motorcycle approached him and shot him with a .45 pistol in the left eye.
In almost all the crimes scenes, except for the last incident, bullet casings from a 9mm pistol were recovered by the Scene of the Crime Operatives. All the victims, according to QCPD-CIDU investigators were shot at close range by the spree killers.
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