Parricide charges are being readied against the 24-year-old man described by the police to be “mentally unstable” who went amok Monday, stabbed dead his seven-month-old daughter, and inflicted injuries on four others, including his wife and two nephews, in Brgy. Candumarao, Hinigaran, Negros Occidental.

Senior Insp. Sonny Boy Bernus, Hinigaran police chief, said the suspect identified as Joebert Mana-ay was mobbed and subdued by his neighbors before he was arrested.

Mana-ay’s victims were his seven-month-old daughter, Kin-Kin, who was killed, and his two nephews, Frederick John, 6, Francis Art, 5, his wife Jean, and another relative Francis Fernandez, 37, whom he also stabbed with a 6-inch “tigib (chisel)”.

Police investigations showed that the baby sustained seven stab wounds. The four other victims are now being treated at the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital in Bacolod City. Bernus said they are now in stable condition, while Mana-ay is detained at the Hinigaran police station jail.

Police investigations also showed that Mana-ay, who was staying at the house of his elder sister in the barangay, had been suffering from severe pains in his head, before the incident.

Senior Supt. Manuel Felix, provincial police director of Negros Occidental, ordered Bernus to expedite the filing of parricide charges against Mana-ay, and assist the family of the victims.

Barangay watchman Nilo Paguntalan, meanwhile, reported to the police that a certain Christopher Vicente was found dead Sunday in Hacienda Angela, Brgy. Abu-Abu, in Murcia.

Chief Insp. Simeon Gane, Murcia police chief, said yesterday the body of Vicente, 35, and a resident of Culasi, Antique, bore stab wounds in the chest and near his mouth.

The cadaver was brought to the Angeles Funeral Parlor in Bacolod City for autopsy.*GPB

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