CANDELARIA, Quezon – A couple was beaten to death with a steel pipe on Thursday morning, Oct. 9, in Sitio Tubohan, Barangay Buenavista West, this town. Police identified the victims as Bandido,59, farmer, and Luz, 58, vendor. Investigation said Bandido was about to open their store when the...
TACLOBAN CITY — A laborer allegedly killed his 77-year-old mother for failure to prepare dinner for him on Tuesday in Sitio Riverside, Barangay Macupa, Leyte, Leyte. The suspect, Rick, 35, was apprehended in a hot-pursuit operation in Barangay Belen, Leyte, Leyte. Investigation said the suspect...
CEBU CITY – A 43-year-old teacher was brutally killed by her live-in partner, a lesbian, following a heated argument in their home in Barangay Tubod, Minglanilla town, Cebu province on Monday night, Oct. 6. Melanie Lee Lastimosa, a teacher at the Lawaan Elementary School in Talisay City, Cebu,...
BACOLOD CITY – A 63-year-old former barangay captain was shot dead in Sitio Tunga, Barangay Patun-an, Calatrava, Negros Occidental on Monday, Oct. 6. Police said the victim Alex was driving a motorcycle on his way home when he was shot in the waist by an unidentified person on board a motorcycle....
COTABATO CITY – Police have identified one of the two gunmen who ambushed and killed a Sangguniang Kabataan chairman and his brother over the weekend in the commercial district here. “The PNP has identified and is actively investigating a person of interest who may have a direct link to the...
LINGAYEN, Pangasinan – A businessman was allegedly beaten to death by three brothers in Barangay Magtaquing, Bugallon, Pangasinan Saturday night. Police identified the suspects as Robin, Rubie, and Leo. Initial investigation said a neighbor and the victim Alfredo were having conversation at the...
COTABATO CITY – A Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) chairman here was killed while his brother was wounded in an ambush in this city’s busy thoroughfare on Saturday morning. Police Brig. Gen. Jansen de Guzman, Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) police chief, was at the crime scene,...
ALAMINOS, Laguna – A 55-year-old barangay councilor was gunned down inside his sari-sari store in Barangay 4 here on Thursday night. Police said the victim, Darwin Tolentino, was tending to his store when two men appeared. One of them disembarked and shot him. The suspects fled on board a...
DAVAO CITY – An Indigenous Peoples leader in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) have urged a deeper probe on the recent murder of a former barangay official in Datu Hoffer, Maguindanao del Sur. Timuay Labi Leticio Datuwata, the Supreme Tribal Chieftain of the Timuay...
LUCENA CITY, Quezon – A 75-year-old man and a vendor were shot dead in Sariaya and Buenavista towns, this province, on Tuesday, Sept. 30. Police identified the victims as Doming, 75, of Buenavista, and Dante, 54, of Sariaya. Investigation said Doming was walking home when a man appeared and shot...
BACOLOD CITY – A 10-year-old girl was raped and killed in Sitio Pinasagan, Barangay Linantuyan, Guihulngan City, Negros Oriental on Tuesday, Sept. 30. The Police Regional Office-Negros Island Region (PRO-NIR) led by Police Brig. Gen. Arnold Thomas Ibay condemned the crime and stressed that...
SHARIFF AGUAK, Maguindanao del Sur – Police in Maguindanao del Sur are pursuing an armed group that allegedly decapitated a tribal leader in a remote barangay in Datu Hoffer Ampatuan town, this province, on Tuesday afternoon. In an interview with reporters on Wednesday, Police Col. Sultan Salman...
