Cezar Pan, 48, succumbed to a stab wound in the chest while his wife, Ana, 45, died of two stab wounds in the body.
According to the victims’ nine-year-old son, his parents had just closed their store, Cezar General Merchandizing, at 600-A, Calle Uno street, Barangay 81 in the Monumento area, when their helper, identified only as Michael, attacked his father with a knife.
The boy told police investigators that he and his four-year-old brother were with their mother in the kitchen on the third floor of their residence when they heard their father shouting for help.
He said all three of them came to the rescue of their father and caught their helper in the act of stabbing him.
When their mother intervened, he said, she was also attacked and stabbed dead by the helper.
Inspector Romeo Onte, Caloocan police chief investigator, said the two boys ran back to the third floor and tried to call for help using their telephone.
The suspect, however, ran after the two boys but the older one was able to hide his younger brother under the bed.
The suspect mauled the older boy and only stopped beating him when the child pretended to be dead.
The suspect, who was hired by the victims only three days before the incident, reportedly escaped with the couples’ cash and valuables.
"We are still in the process of accounting for the missing things," Onte told The STAR.
Senior Superintendent Benjardi Mantele, the city police chief, yesterday ordered a massive manhunt against the suspect.