Cops probing deaths of 2 in Bacolod City

Law enforcers are investigating separate stabbing and shooting incidents that left two people dead and another injured in Bacolod City during the weekend, the police said yesterday.

Dequito Pasilan, of Purok 6, Brgy. Tangub, and Jomar Serupia of Purok Riverside, Brgy. Banago, both in the city, died of multiple stab wounds, police records showed.

Pasilan, 53, died while being treated at the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital after Diosdado Marquez, 30, stabbed him in Purok 6, at about 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Police Station 8 commander, Senior Inspector Placido Gentoleo said.

Serupia, 16, meanwhile, was found dead at a foot walk after a riot broke out during a public disco in Purok Riverside at about 11:20 p.m. Saturday, police records said.

Initial investigation showed that Pasilan had an argument with Marquez and was eventually stabbed by the suspect after they pacified a confrontation between Pasilan's son and Marquez's nephew, Gentoleo said.

Marquez, who is a native of Himamaylan town, Negros Occidental, is still at large but Gentoleo said they will most likely file a murder charge against him once the family and the witnesses have executed their affidavits.

Serupia's mother, on the other hand, said that unidentified persons ganged up on her son for still unknown reasons.

Meanwhile, Diosdado Puertes, 25 was brought to CLMMRH after an unidentified person shot while he, his brother, and his cousin were on their way home also in Brgy. Banago.

SPO3 Romulo Bravo of Police Station 3 said that the two incidents in Banago could have been triggered by continuous retaliatory acts among groups in the area.*PP

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11 th IB troopers
have new chief

The Army's 11 th Infantry Battalion will have a new commander in the person of Lt. Col. Franco Gacal effective today.

Gacal, executive officer of the 303 rd Infantry Brigade, will replace Lt. Col. Jesus Manangquil as 11 th IB commander, in a turnover of command ceremony to be presided over by Maj. Gen. Jovenal Narcise, 3 rd Infantry Division commander, in Brgy. La Granja , La Carlota City , Negros Occidental.

Military records show that Gacal, a member of the Philippine Military Academy Class '88, was among the Philippine peacekeepers dispatched by the United Nations to Ivory Coast in Africa , before he was assigned as executive officer of the 303 rd Infantry Brigade.

On the other hand, Manangquil, a member of PMA Class '85, has already completed the required two-year tour of duty as battalion commander. However, his next assignment was not known as of press time.

Also expected to attend the 11 th IB turnover of command rites are Brig. Gen. Gregorio Fajardo, assistant 3 rd ID commander, and Col. Honorato de los Reyes, 303 rd IB commanding officer.

Lt. Col. Romeo Basco (PMA Class '87) earlier also took over the 61 st Infantry Battalion command from Lt. Col. Norman Flores.*GPB

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5 more nabbed
for illegal gambling

Five more persons allegedly engaged in illegal gambling were simultaneously arrested yesterday by the Negros Occidental Police Special Operations Group in Pulupandan and La Carlota City.

This brought to nine the number of illegal gambling violators arrested by the police Special Operations led by Senior Inspector Rico Santotome since Sunday, in coordination with local policemen.

Santotome yesterday identified the five arrested suspects as Bernardo Montales, Apolinario Paglinawan, Cesar Amarila, Luzviminda Espartero and Lolita Tasic.

He said the arrest of Montales, Paglinawan and Amarila who were caught in the act of engaging in soliciting bets for daily double outfit codenamed “Gold” in Pulupandan yielded tally sheets, three ballpens and P23.25 in cash.

On the other hand, Espartero and Tasic were arrested in La Carlota City.

Santotome said the nine arrested illegal gambling violators, including those apprehended in La Castellana on Sunday, are now locked up in jail, pending the filing of charges against them for violation of Republic Act 9287, or the amended illegal gambling act.*GPB

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