Massacre survivor dies in Pampanga hospital

CAMP OLIVAS, Pampanga – A man, wounded in a robbery that left six members of his household dead in the city of San Fernando died while undergoing treatment at the Sacred Heart Medical Center in Angeles City Tuesday.

Nicolas Edejer, 42, of Molave Street, L & Subdivision, Barangay Telabastagan, died at about 5 a.m., according to provincial police director Senior Supt. Oscar Albayalde.

The six other victims – Corazon Edejer, 47; Kenneth Nolan Edejer, 19, and their helpers Teresita Camiling, 40; BenignoIngar Jr., 52; Nelson Dominico, 17, and a certain Kakay, 27 – died on the scene from gunshots to the head, he said.

As this developed, the Special Investigation Task Group (SITG) Edejer said they are set to open a vault left in a kitchen by the robbers who took it down from the second floor of the house when they massacred the victims on Sept. 20 in San Fernando City.

“We would like to know what’s inside the safety vault,” the task group said adding they are hoping to find a lead from the vault that could solve the case.

Nicolas was a supplier of fish in several markets in Pampanga.

The task group has invited several persons for questioning.

The suspects fled in a vehicle owned by the Edejers. The vehicle was recovered in Barangay Balas, Concepcion, Tarlac.

Meanwhile, the task group led by Supt. Ricardo Pangan, deputy director for operations, is tracking down the killers whose getaway vehicle, a black Toyota Hi-Lux pick-up truck, was later recovered in Concepcion, Tarlac.

The pick-up truck is owned by Nicolas Edejer, 42, who survived the attack with serious wounds.

The six members of the household were shot dead in the head except for Nicolas Edejer who was wounded by later died.

House owner Nicolas Edejer, 42, was earlier taken to the Sacred Heart Medical Center in Angeles City for treatment of gunshot wounds.

Albayalde said a concerned citizen reported the incident to the Community Police Action Center (COMPAC4) headed by Senior Insp. Erwin Marzan, who dispatched his men to house number 19 on Molave Street, L & S Subdivision in Barangay Telebastagan.

He said that responding policemen saw the victims on the floor and bloodied.

Initial investigation showed the gunmen shot the victims one by one before taking the vault down from the second floor.

Albayalde said several bullet shells for a caliber .45 pistol were recovered at the crime scene.

Investigators found in a drawer and bag of one of the victims cash money of undermined amount, even as police have yet to finish with the inventory of the victims’ belongings, Albayalde said.

The gunmen fled taking with them the recorder of the closed-circuit television camera installed in the house.

The vehicle was recovered in Concepcion, Tarlac. 

Supt. Ricardo David, city police chief, said aside from robbery, investigators have yet to determine other motives for the killing and identify the suspects.