'NBI agents' accost, murder family of 3

By Liam Anacleto

ZARAGOZA, Nueva Ecija– A couple and their daughter were found dead with multiple bullet wounds in a remote area here on Wednesday, believed slain by armed men posing as National Bureau of Investigation agents.

Police found 10 spent M-16 shells and four spent .45-caliber shells at the place where the bodies of Fernandito de Guzman Sr., 55, his wife Rosalinda, 52, and daughter Norie de la Cruz, 24, were found.

The family hailed from San Antonio town.

Police said the couple, along with a son-in-law, left for Zaragoza town on Wednesday morning onboard a tricycle but was flagged down by armed men dressed in NBI uniforms, supposedly serving an arrest warrant for an estafa case.

Thinking that the armed men were indeed NBI agents, De la Cruz accompanied her parents.

Later that morning though, another daughter of the De Guzman couple got a text message from a friend that her parents and sister were found dead in Barangay Mayamot, Zaragoza town.