BACOLOD CITY – A Grade 12 student was stabbed to death for allegedly spreading the sex video of a female student in Barangay 4, Hinigaran, Negros Occidental on Sunday night, August 18.
THE body of a 17-year-old Grade 12 student who was killed for allegedly spreading a sex video in Barangay 4, Hinigaran, Negros Occidental on Sunday, August 18. (Photo courtesy of Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office)
Police Lt. Col. Eduardo Corpuz, Hinigaran police chief, said the 17-year-old victim was stabbed by two unidentified persons who arrived on a motorcycle while sitting on a bench a few meters away from their house near the highway.
The victim sustained two stab wounds in the chest, and one each in the neck, left arm, right knee, and right ankle.
Corpuz said the victim managed to return home and sought help from his family. He was taken to a hospital where he was declared dead.
Police are looking into vengeance as possible motive in the incident as the victim was accused of spreading the sex video.
He said they have obtained a closed circuit television camera footage of the incident and are looking for witnesses who could identify the suspects.