3 stabbings in QC

Three people were stabbed dead in separate incidents in Quezon City over the weekend.

Tricycle driver Juanito Mayagma, 27, was killed Saturday afternoon during an altercation over commissions in the sale of a used cell phone.

According to the police, an apparently drunk Mayagma approached construction worker Anthony Olasiman, 26, and confronted him over rumors that Olasiman felt bad over the commission he received from the sale of Mayagma’s cell phone.

The police said Mayagma asked a certain “Inggo” to sell his cellphone for P400 a few days before the incident. Inggo was accompanied by the Olasiman in selling the cellphone, for which the victim gave them only P50.

Olasiman stabbed Mayagma after the victim punched him. He fled on foot but was eventually arrested by village watchmen of Barangay Bagong Silangan.

Mayagma was declared dead on arrival at the East Avenue Medical Center due to a stab wound in the chest.

In another part of the city, a man was killed by his live-in partner over his alleged affair with another woman.

Government employee Bullet Castillo, 53, was declared dead on arrival at the Quezon City General Hospital at 2:20 a.m. yesterday.

His live-in partner, Elinita Pesico, 40, is at large. She had used a kitchen knife to stab Castillo during a heated argument inside their house in Barangay Tandang Sora.

Meanwhile, a welder was attacked by an unidentified man in Novaliches Saturday night.

Police identified the victim as Arnaldo Banda, 42, and a resident of Barangay Gulod. He was waiting for his wife outside a shop along Jordan Plains Street in Barangay Sta. Monica at around 7 p.m. when the suspect stabbed him in the chest.

Banda was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he was declared dead on arrival at 7:30 p.m.