Cab driver robbed, killed in Valenzuela

A 31-year-old taxi driver was found dead inside his cab with multiple stab wounds in different parts of the body early morning yesterday in Valenzuela City.

Inspector Deogracias Valera identified the victim as Richard Amparo, driver of Jaylimdim Taxi, with license plate PVS-461, of Sta. Lucia street, Pasig City.

Witness Antonio Padrino, 36, found the victim’s body slumped on the front seat of his taxi in a pool of blood at around 5 a.m. yesterday along Padrinao street, Barangay Karuhatan, Valenzuela City.

Police investigation revealed that the victim’s earnings were missing while his wallet and other important documents were found scattered inside his cab.

Probers believed Amparo fought it out with the robbers prompting the suspects to assault him with bladed weapons.

The victim’s body was brought to the Valenzuela Memorial Homes for autopsy.

Follow-up operations for the possible apprehension of the suspects were futile.

In other developments, the Caloocan City police are hunting down a suspect who shot and seriously injured a man who was urinating inside the comfort room of McDonald’s fastfood chain branch along EDSA corner Gen. Simon street in Monumento Saturday night.

Orlando Garcia, of Lot 12, 356 Dulong Buhangin street, Sta. Maria, Bulacan is now confined at the Manila Central University (MCU) Hospital due to a gunshot wound in the mouth.

Police said that at around 10 p.m. Saturday, Garcia, accompanied by a friend identified as Arturo Ballesteros, 55, of 27 9th Avenue, Caloocan City, went to McDonald’s to answer the call of nature.

As Ballesteros was waiting for the victim, he reportedly observed that somebody followed Garcia to the comfort room, where he heard moments later, a gunshot.

When he checked on Garcia, he found his friend lying on the floor bleeding from a gunshot wound in the mouth while the suspect was nowhere to be found. – Pete Laude