
Police Lt. Markelly Laganipa, deputy chief of the Himamaylan City Police Station, said 33-year-old Regie Castino was watching over his fighting cocks when he saw an unidentified man allegedly stealing his fighting cocks tied in the yard of his house.
Castino chased the suspect and caught up with him. However, out of anger, Castino allegedly stabbed the 17-year-old suspect twice, Laganipa said.
The suspect managed to escape but he was later caught by the victim’s neighbor in a sugarcane plantation.
Police recovered from the suspect a backpack containing the two stolen fighting cocks valued at P2,500 each.
The suspect was brought to Gov. Valeriano Gatuslao Memorial Hospital in Himamaylan.
Laganipa said the victim’s other fighting cocks were also reported stolen in the past days. Castino, however, could not identify if the same suspect was behind those incidents.
Laganipa said that both parties already had an initial settlement.