Student stabbed dead; killer unknown

An 18-year-old college student died when an unidentified assailant stabbed him in front of his house shortly before midnight Saturday in Navotas City.

Sonny Van de Mate, a resident of Kaunlaran Village in Barangay North Bay Boulevard South (NBBS), succumbed to a single stab wound in the chest.

Police Officer 1 Joseph Provido said the victim was unwinding in front of his family’s house at around 11:45 p.m. when he was attacked. The suspect immediately fled on foot with his weapon.

Relatives brought Mate to the Pagamutang Bayan ng Malabon, but he died along the way.

Mate’s neighbor, Juvy Rueda, 41, witnessed the attack.

She described the suspect as about 20 to 25 years old, 5’5” in height, slim and wearing a white T-shirt and maong pants.

The Navotas City police, under officer-in-charge Superintendent Eric Serafin Reyes, are still conducting follow-up investigation yesterday to identify and arrest Mate’s killer. – Pete Laude