BACOLOD CITY - A man suffering from a nervous breakdown stabbed himself to death after hacking his live-in partner and four minor children at home in Barangay Tapi, Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental on Wednesday night, May 22.
A MAN suffering from a nervous breakdown killed himself after hacking his live-in partner and four children at home in Barangay Tapi, Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental on Wednesday, May 22. (Photo courtesy of Kabankalan City Police Station)
Police Capt. Joelan Vinson, deputy chief of the Kabankalan City Police Station, withheld the names of the 36-year-old suspect, his 36-year-old live-in partner, and children - a three-year-old boy, and three girls aged one year and six months, six, and nine.
Vinson said the suspect allegedly suddenly attacked his family with a bolo while his live-in partner was preparing dinner around 6:30 p.m.
Vinson said the suspect’s 13-year-old son witnessed the incident, prompting him to hit his father in the head with a yoke locally known as “singkaw” to pacify him.
The injured victims managed to leave their house and sought help from their neighbors, he added.
Vinson said the suspect then stabbed himself in the stomach. When barangay officials responded, they found him gasping.
The victims and the suspect were taken to the hospital where he was declared dead.
The suspect’s live-in partner and three children suffered hack wounds in the nape, head, and shoulder, and are confined in the hospital. The baby sustained scratches and was not admitted to the hospital.
Vinson said that this was the first time that the suspect went violent and he had not been eating and sleeping regularly the past weeks.