A
prominent physician Dr. Andres Gumban was brutally killed in his residence in Brgy. Alijis Bacolod City at 10: 45 p.m.
Thursday and the suspects are two teenagers, one of whom he came to know on
Facebook.
Based
on initial investigation, the victim died due to 34 stab wounds in the chest,
stomach, and neck which was slashed.
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| Suspects |
The suspects were Fof Pascual Jr., 18, of Barangay Tadlong, Sagay
City, and a 16-year-old from Cadiz City, a scholar at their school, being a badminton varsity player, whose name is being withheld as he is
a minor. One of the suspect took video from cellular phone while they killed the victim.
As
shown in the video, the 16-year-old suspect from Cadiz City placed his cellular
phone by the window in the kitchen of Gumban’s house, while holding a stone in
his back. He and his companion, Pascual were apparently waiting for the doctor
to enter the house from the backyard.
As
the victim entered the kitchen and was washing his hands in the sink, the
16-year-old approached him from behind and repeatedly hit the victim on the
head with a stone, the video shows. When the doctor fell on the floor, Pascual
stabbed him four times on the chest. The doctor tried to escape from his
attackers by crawling towards his room but the suspects dragged him to the
bathroom, the video further shows.
The
footage also showed that the doctor stood up and tried to get out of the
bathroom but Pascual stabbed him again and locked the doctor with the
16-year-old inside the bathroom. While Gumban and the 16-year-old were inside
the bathroom, Pascual was seen washing his hands and legs at the sink and
pacing back and forth from the doctor’s room.
The
minor later came out from the bathroom and had slipped on the blood-stained
floor. He then stood up, washed himself in the sink, took his cellular phone
from the window and brought it to the bathroom to videotape himself with the
lifeless doctor in the background. He later held the camera before his face,
smiled, winked at the camera before the video stopped rolling.
The
video was released to the media Tuesday by Sr. Supt. Ricardo de la Paz, Bacolod
City Police director, who said the suspects admitted that they are illegal drug
users and are “callboys.”
De
la Paz said based on the video tape and other evidences, they have filed
robbery with homicide and murder charges against the suspects before the
Bacolod City Prosecutor’s Office Tuesday. He said the video debunked the claims
of the 16-year-old who said that Gumban, armed with a knife, tried to molest
him while he was inside the bathroom, prompting him to grab the weapon and
repeatedly stab the victim instead.
De
la Paz said they have established that the two planned the robbery and the
killing of the doctor when they were still in Cadiz City. The P50,000 in
cash, iPad, wristwatch and necklace of Gumban were still missing, he said.
Also
presented to the Prosecutor’s Office were the affidavits of the doctor’s
neighbors, Ivan Amar and Jonathan Maniego, who foiled the escape of the
suspects. De la Paz said they are still investigating if Pascual and the
16-year-old had other companions when they committed the crime.
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