Senior Superintendent Raul Medina, Pasig City police chief, said they are now looking for the boys’ father, Jaime Fil de Leon, 27.
Medina identified the victims as Michael Sanchez, 6, and his younger brother, Joshua, 5. Michael sustained three stab wounds in his abdomen while Joshua was stabbed twice in the chest.
Michael’s body was discovered inside a refrigerator while Joshua was found lying in a pool of blood at the second floor of their residence at the Bernardo Compound on V. Caliwag Street in Barangay Pinagbuhatan.
The victims’ three-year-old sister was asleep in the master’s bedroom and was unharmed.
Medina said the victim’s grandmother, Amor de Leon discovered the bodies at 3 a.m. yesterday.
She told PO3 Enrique Jimenez that her jobless son took custody of the three children after he separated with his live-in partner, a certain Alpha Sanchez, years back. The woman works at a mall in Makati City.
Medina said the couple had a long discussion last Dec. 15 and agreed to forget their differences, live together again and spend the New Year with the children.
Neighbors, however, claimed that the father was distraught last Friday night while waiting for Sanchez to show up.
The girl failed to honor their agreement, the grandmother said.
The two children were last seen alive playing with other kids at the height of the New Year celebrations, neighbors claimed.
Medina clarified that they have no evidence yet that would point to the father as the suspect.
The Pasig City police chief said they have yet to recover the weapon used in the killings.
Scene of the Crime Operatives of the Eastern Police District, headed by Chief Inspector Cenon Manalo, conducted a field examination of the crime scene. – Non Alquitran