CEBU, Philippines - The Mandaue City Police Office has finally solved one of the two high profile killings in the city last year.
Murder charges were finally filed in the Prosecutors Office the other day against Danilo Latonio Capa alias” Mokins,” the man who allegedly shot to death in September 16 last year businesswoman Irish Marie Hugo Gonzales.
A traffic enforcer pointed to Capa as the gunman.
Teodulo Hugo, the victim’s uncle, who filed the murder case against Capa, who is currently at large.
Capa was positively identified by the traffic enforcer as the one who shot Gonzales three times while she was at the wheel of her Starex van.
At the time of the shooting, which happened at the junction of J. Briones Street and Andres Soriano Avenue in barangay Looc, Mandaue City, Gonzales was with his live-in partner Crisostomo Alcala and three others.
The traffic enforcer in his testimony said Capa rode behind the driver of a motorcycle, which stopped beside the van. He said Capa aimed a gun at Gonzales.
Homicide Section chief P/Insp. Ramil Morpos in a separate interview said that although Capa has no criminal record, the police have information about the man figuring in a shooting incident which was not reported to the authorities.
Morpos said Joseph Flores, a friend of Capa who is currently in the Bagong Buhay Rehabilitation Center (BBRC) for a robbery case, could also attest to Capa’s involvement in the killing of Gonzales.
Flores said he and Capa had met before the killing of Gonzales.
Capa had asked him if he had seen a certain “Kenneth Dignos,” adding that Dignos was going to be a partner in killing someone.
Dignos was arrested last month for gun possession.
But since Capa failed to find Dignos, he offered the job to Flores.
But Flores refused.
Capa even tried to put the gun in Flores’ hands, but again he refused.
Morpos said that with Capa’s arrest, the investigation will now focus on businesses of the slain businesswoman and her love life.
He also said they will also look into the involvement of Gonzales’s live-in partner Crisostomo at the LTO where he is a fixer of the agency.
Now that the Gonzales murder is considered solved with the filing of the murder case, the police can now focus on the killing of businessman and wharf owner Antonio Ouano Jr. who was also killed last year while on board his car while he and his secretary where on their way to attend a court hearing. - THE FREEMAN