Junkshop helper
stabbed to death

A junkshop helper was stabbed dead by still unidentified suspects in another grudge-triggered killing in Bacolod City at about 2:30 a.m. yesterday, the police said.

Rogelio Dorignel, 55, of Hervias 1, Narra Extension, Brgy. Villamonte, Bacolod, was declared dead on arrival at the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital an hour later, from multiple knife wounds, police records showed.

Police Station 4 case investigator, SPO1 Rommel Parcon, said that grudges between Dorignel and the killers, was the most probable motive for the killing.

Dorignel’s companions, Rommel Aloyan, 30, and Louie Mirasol, 21, told police investigators that they were walking near a gasoline station at the Circumferential Road in Brgy. Villamonte, Bacolod, when around 10 unidentified persons ganged up on them without any provocation.

Parcon added that Dorignel and his companions probably knew their attackers whose faces were covered during assault.

Aloyan and Mirasol said they managed to fight back and run while Dorignel fell on the ground and was stabbed.

They added that their assailants fled towards Purok Banawe, Brgy. Villamonte.

During follow-up operations, officers led by Parcon recovered from Purok Banawe, a 12-inch double-bladed knife, a red handkerchief, a towel, and a jacket that may have been used by Dorignel’s killers, police records showed.*PP

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Bizwoman
robbed of P375,000

A businesswoman lost P375,000 in cash to three hold-uppers who had robbed her at gunpoint Wednesday at the national highway of Brgy. Binicuil, Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental.

Police reports said Gemma Caritatibo, 43, and her sister, Anna Marie Limaco, were on their way home when the tricycle they were riding, was blocked by the three men, two of them with hand guns.

Caritativo told the Kabankalan police that the suspects grabbed her bag, containing P375,000 in cash that she had withdrawn from Banco de Oro in Kabankalan City proper.

The three fled on a motorcycle, and were nowhere to be found when Kabankalan policemen arrived at the scene.

Supt. Calixto Mabugat, Kabankalan police chief, yesterday said the victim may have under surveillance by the three before the incident.

Caritatibo is engaged in encashing checks of small sugar planters at BISCOM Sugar Central in Binalbagan, police investigations also showed.

Mabugat said those withdrawing large amounts of money from banks, should always be security conscious.*GPB

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Witness to killing
urged to surface

The family of taxi driver David Gallego Jr. yesterday reiterated an appeal to possible witnesses to his killing to surface and help solve the crime as the Bacolod police pursue a new angle.

Gallego’s sister, Margot, pleaded with those who have any knowledge about the incident to cooperate with them and the police, four days after her brother was fatally shot by a still unidentified person at Sto. Niño Stop, Purok Sigay, Brgy. 2, Bacolod at about 11 p.m. Sunday.

“What if it also happens to their loved ones?” she asked in a telephone interview with the DAILY STAR.

Margot said it was “impossible” that no one had seen David’s killer because of the many houses near the crime scene.

“We know that they know. They just don’t want to speak,” she added.

Meanwhile, Police Station 2 commander, Senior Inspector Luisito Acebuche, said, that aside from illegal drugs deals, a romantic affair could have also triggered the shooting but he did not specify.

Jose Ecraela, 43, who was earlier held by the police for questioning but was subsequently released, had said that he saw David fall after he was shot but claimed that he did not see the gunman.

Acebuche has said that they may file abandonment charges against Ecraela for not helping David, but Margot claimed a clause in Section 1 of Article 275 of the Revised Penal Code prevented them from doing so. The clause states that “any one fails to render assistance to any person he finds in an uninhabited place wounded or in danger of dying, and does not help when he can do it without detriment to himself, could be imprisoned for one to six months.

The place where David was slain is a populated area and Ecraela said he did not touch Gallego although he was still moving, because he was afraid he would also be shot.*PP

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