86-year-old man killed inside motel
THE POLICE are looking for the last known companions of an 86-year-old man who was killed inside a motel in Novaliches, Quezon City, on Saturday morning.
The body of Isidro Perez, a widower and resident of Barangay Sto. Cristo in the city, was found at 8:20 a.m. He had been stabbed to deat h and the knife remained stuck in his neck.
Authorities found him three hours after he checked into the Sunrise Lagro apartelle on Quirino Highway, Barangay Pasong Putik, with a still unidentified woman.
According to the report of case investigator SPO1 Joselito Gagaza of the Quezon City Police District’s Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit, witnesses said that minutes after Perez and his companion checked into the motel shortly after 5 a.m., a man claiming to be his son barged into the establishment and demanded to know which room the couple were in.
The motel staff said they gave him the information after he agreed to pay the “extra person” rate, Gagaza said.
Around 6 a.m., Perez’s female companion stepped out of the room and said she was going out to buy some food. The unidentified man who had claimed to be Perez’s son also left the establishment after a few minutes.
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