By Gina Dizon
BONTOC,
Mountain Province – Police are now interrogating four suspects in the brutal
death of a 22-year-old coed in this province’s capital town, which has sparked
concern among concerned residents who urged police to arrest the murderers
sooner or more killings could follow.
Town
police chief Dyanne Bangcawayan bared this but did not disclose names of the
suspects pending investigation.
A
15- year- old girl was also killed by another minor-suspect here in a coffee
shop last July 20.
Dawn
of Tuesday, 2nd year Computer Technician student of Xijen Technological
Institute Sarah GemalynMacholiBecyagen was found dead at a vacant lot near a
kiosk fronting the Mountain Province General Comprehensive High School.
Becyagen
sustained injuries at her right abdomen, swollen lips, hematoma and injuries on
knees and legs, medical reports said, adding the victim died due to asphyxia by
means of strangulation.
The victim
was estimated to have died between 11 to 12 p.m. of Sept. 11. Her cell
phone was missing.
Investigator
SPO3 Romualdo Ngina of the provincial police investigation unit here said
laboratory tests were sent to the crime laboratory to determine commission of
rape.
Police
said the victim with two girlfriends left a liquor store around 8 p.m. night of
Sept. 11. The victim started for home
alone by 11 p.m. to Barangay Samoki where she lived with her parents. She
traces her roots from Otukan, Bauko in the province.
Investigation
led by Bontoc chief of police Dyanne Bangcawayan and
supported by the province’s police investigation unit is
ongoing to find out identity of perpetrators.
Provincial
police director Senior Supt. William Viteno said robbery may be the motive of
the suspects in the killing since some of her personal belongings were missing.
Responding
personnel from the Bontoc Police, Provincial Headquarters, Crime Laboratory,
and the Bontoc Emergency Response Team led by Dr. Diga Kay Gomez “processed”
the area where the victim was found.
They
brought the body to Bontoc General Hospital where the remains were later
identified as that if Becyagen's by her father Agustin Becyagen.
Investigators
who talked with the victim’s cousin - Karen MachuliTicgangay - who was with the
victim before the incident reportedly bared that victim was then wearing a
black sling bag containing her Samsung cellular phone when they parted ways in
front of the Land Bank branch about a hundred meters away from where the
victim's body was found.
Businessman
Jimmy Bangkili Saguid who parked his vehicle on the side of the road near where
the body was found said that midnight of Monday, he noticed two males, both
slim and wearing jogging pants with one among them wearing a black t-shirt and
a hood covering his head, while the other was wearing a black t-shirt roaming
around.
While
initially looking at robbery, police is also not discounting other angles for
the killing, added Viteno.
“We
are conducting a deep investigation and searching for more witnesses,” the
police official said.
Coming
from a huge and prominent family, the victim's relatives urged police to solve
the case.
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