Reports reaching the Homicide Division of the Western Police District identified the victim as Rosario Raposa y Aguirre, of 1922 Interior Obisis St., Barrio Banana, Pandacan.
According to reports, the victim and suspect Romeo Raposa alias Boy, 40, were at the second floor of their house when neighbors heard the widow shouting "Boy, Boy" at about 10:20 p.m.
Hearing the screams, the victim’s youngest daughter Rosalinda rushed upstairs and saw her mother slumped on the floor with a bleeding knife wound in the nape. A bloodied knife was also lying on the floor.
Rosalinda then saw her brother rushing down and out of the house instead of attending to their wounded mother. The victim was rushed to the Philippine General Hospital but was declared dead on arrival.
When arrested by elements of the Pandacan police station (Station 10) later, Romeo denied stabbing his mother to death and claimed that he was being framed. He added that he rushed out of their house to chase the real killer.
But according to Chief Inspector Juanito Taluban, head of the WPD Homicide Division, they have a strong case against the suspect, reportedly a known drug addict. "Nobody in his right frame of mind would abandon his wounded mother and leave her to die," Taluban said.
The suspect is now detained at the WPD Integrated Jail as charges of parricide are being readied against him in the Manila City Prosecutor’s Office.
Meanwhile in Marikina City, a 21-year-old driver ran off with P27,000 over the weekend, the earnings of a businesswoman, to get even with his employer for terminating his live-in partner.
The police are now hunting the suspect, Leonardo Bautista, driver of JB Lihn Enterprises and resident of Barangay Tibig, Bulacan.
The victim, Vernice Ann Ngo, 35, businesswoman, resident of Lot 7 Block 3 Ignacio Cruz Street, Barangay San Roque, Marikina City said she intended to dismiss Bautista for being remiss in his duties after she sacked his live-in partner some months back.– Non Alquitran