Thieves without getaway ride baffle cops in latest QC carjack-murder

MANILA, Philippines — Police found the methods used by suspects in a carjacking incident that left a woman dead in Quezon City Wednesday morning “unusual,” a police official said.

Chief Superintendent Leonardo Espina, director of the Highway Patrol Group of the Philippine National Police said they have created a special intelligence task group, in coordination with the National Capital Region Police Office and the Quezon City Police District, to look into the death of Teresita Teano.

Espina said that the case was unusual to the authorities as the suspects who took the victim’s vehicle had no back-up. “In a typical carnapping situation, (the suspects usually) have a back-up vehicle, even if it’s just a motorcycle,” Espina explained.

Witnesses to the incident were also being interviewed by police, said the HPG director.

Teano was attacked by three car thieves in front of the Brahma Kumaris Meditation Center in #34 T. Gener St. corner Kamuning Road in Quezon City at around 6 a.m., said QCPD director Chief Superintendent George Regis. He added that the victim was shot when she resisted, and was even run over by the suspects using her own car.

Regis said that Teano was a student of the meditation center, and was getting out of her red Hyundai Accent when the three armed men attacked her. She suffered two gunshot wounds on the lower part of her cheek and right upper arm, he said.

Authorities are now investigating the case, and are on the lookout for the suspects, as well as the victim’s car, said Espina.