Laborer kills live-in partner for ending relationship

Love turned into a foul four-letter word, hate, after a laborer stabbed to death his live-in partner before dawn yesterday in Malabon City when the woman decided to end their relationship upon discovery that the suspect was already married.

Baltazar Acol, 26, a resident of Barangay Longos, Dagat-Dagatan, Malabon City is now being hunted by the local police for the slaying of his alleged live-in partner 22-year-old Melody Sta. Teresa.

Sta. Teresa succumbed to multiple stab wounds.

Police Officer 2 Edcel de la Paz, of the Malabon City police Station Investigation and Detective Management Branch (SIDMB), said that the couple’s neighbor, Marvin Russel, heard the two having a heated argument at around 4:15 a.m.

At the height of the verbal tussle, the woman cried for help, prompting him to seek the assistance of the barangay watchmen, Russel said.

The responding watchmen, after failing to open the door of the couple’s room, forced it open and found the woman sprawled on the floor with multiple stab wounds in different parts of the body. Acol was nowhere to be found.

The victim was brought to the Tondo Medical Center (TMC) for treatment but Dr. Preciosa Corsiga, her attending physician, pronounced Sta. Teresa dead on arrival at around 5:30 a.m.

Russel said the victim was able to tell the barangay watchmen before she passed away that it was Acol who attacked her.

The victim’s relatives told the police that the couple started quarreling when the woman found out that Acol was already married.

Last night’s spat went bloody when Sta. Teresa finally decided to end her relationship with the suspect.

PO2 Charlie de Guzman, SIDMB investigator, said the police are hunting down Acol who fled after the incident.