Sleeping man hacked dead by drinking pal
After injuring his drinking partner in a fistfight, an 18-year-old male helper was hacked to death while he slept in the open hut of his employer in barangay Maya, Daanbantayan town, last Wednesday morning.
Police identified the victim as Jovy Pepito, a native of Calubian,
Pepito’s body had hack wounds in the face, arms, chest and fingers. He was rushed to the
Daanbantayan investigator SPO2 Cesar Alburo said that the suspected assailant, a 17-year-old helper of a bakeshop in the barangay, surrendered to barangay tanod chief Raul Doblin and three tanods, who turned him over to the police.
The suspect, a native of
Investigation showed that Pepito and the suspected killer were drinking in the hut the night before. They got into a heated argument, which led into a fistfight where Pepito bit and wounded the right eye of the suspect.
The fight ended but the injured suspect was not about to accept his loss without revenge. So when Pepito fell asleep, the suspect returned with a chopping knife and hacked Pepito many times then left him for dead. — Jo-ana Marie Desuyo, CNU intern/RAE
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