A cop was killed and chopped up by another police officer in Camp Bagong Diwa in Lower Bicutan, Taguig City after the latter caught the victim in an intimate situation with the latter’s wife.
The crime occurred on November 28, Police Major Hazel Asilo, public information officer of the Southern Police District, said in an interview on Dobol B TV on Saturday.
The victim, who was not identified, held the rank of police executive master sergeant.
Asilo said the victim’s body was found on December 5 buried in the male suspect’s ancestral home in Baguio City.
The suspect, a police lieutenant colonel, admitted to committing the crime and executed an affidavit, she added.
Asilo said investigation into the incident is still ongoing, but crime of passion is an angle the police are probing.
According to Asilo, the suspect said he found the victim and his own wife, also an executive master sergeant, in a very intimate situation.
“Based sa binigay na statement, naaktuhan ang isang suspect sa very intimate na sitwasyon… Nabaril niya itong ating victim,” she said.
(Based on the statement he gave, the female suspect was found in a very intimate situation… He shot the victim.)
The male suspect then used a hacksaw and dismembered the victim.
Using a pickup, the male suspect transported the victim’s body to Baguio City where the latter was buried.
The suspect later on told police where the body was buried.
Asilo added that prior to the discovery of the victim’s body, the victim was reported missing.
“Merong mga reports at merong nakikita tayo sa social media na [posts na] hinahanap itong victim. ‘Yung anak niya mismo ang nagpunta sa Camp Bagong Diwa dahil doon niya huling alam nagpunta ang kanyang tatay,” she said.
“Kaya natunton ang huling unit na pinuntahan [ng biktima],” Asilo added.
(There were reports and social media posts we saw saying that the victim was missing. The victim’s own child went to Camp Bagong Diwa because that was the last place the victim went to.)
Police are treating the suspect’s wife as a suspect as well and may face charges of conspiracy as the crime was committed in her presence.
Charges of murder may also be filed against the couple, Asilo said.
Both of them were placed under police custody.
Police are still looking for the hacksaw used in the crime. The pickup was also placed in police custody.
Asilo said they are still awaiting the forensic report which would reveal how many gunshots the victim had. —KG, GMA Integrated News
