Nephew of ex-TV host kills self in M’luyong

The nephew of a former Eat Bulaga and Student Canteen host Chiqui Holmann Pineda shot himself in Mandaluyong City early yesterday morning.

PO2 Ruperto Martin Sazon, case investigator, said that the victim, Charles Holmann, 19, driver and resident of 317 Dansalan St., Mandaluyong died after three hours of treatment at the Dr. Victor Potenciano Medical Center.

PO2 Ruperto Martin Sazon revealed that the night before the incident, the victim arrived at the house of his live-in partner, Ana Milet Jugo.

"He often goes home problematic. He never told me the reason, he just said that his mother neglects him," Sazon quoted Jugo.

Jugo added that his parents abandoned him when his grandfather died and she tried to persuade him to forget everything and start a new life.

Jugo said she fell asleep and was awakened when she heard a gunshot inside their house at around 4:20 a.m. yesterday. When she checked, she saw the victim in a pool of his own blood.

It was gathered that the victim had sold his motorcycle and used the money to buy a caliber .38 revolver which he used in ending his life. – Non Alquitran