BANGUED, Abra -- Police filed murder charges last week against a provincial board member of Abra and three others for the killing of a Filipino-Swiss in this capital town last Nov. 23.
Charged before the
Abra prosecutor’s office were board member Ma. Elena Jenkins, Bartolome
Sebastian, Isikiel Panabang, and a certain Joseph.
Director Samuel
Pagdilao Jr., chief of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, said the
filing of charges against Jenkins and her alleged cohorts finally solved the
killing of Marc Gerald Alfred Aubord, 26, a resident of Barangay Causapan in
Danglas, Abra.
Pagdilao said Aubord’s
killing is the third unsolved heinous crime solved by the CIDG in Abra and
Apayao.
Senior Supt. Pedro
Austria Jr., CIDG-Cordillera chief, said the killing stemmed from a property
dispute between Jenkins and her older sister, Gemma Franco, common-law wife of
Aubord’s father Gerald.
Franco used to be
supportive of Jenkins but differences between them ensued when the former met
and began living in with the elder Aubord.
This allegedly
prompted Jenkins to focus her anger toward her sister’s Swiss common-law
husband, said Insp. Elmer Roberto Balaba, CIDG-Abra chief.
Wishing that the Swiss
national would leave Abra for good, Jenkins allegedly ordered the killing of
the young Aubord, which was an easier target than his father, Balaba said.
Records show that the
young Aubord was crossing the Calaba Bridge in Bangued on his motorcycle when
he was shot in the head.
Police recovered an
empty .45-caliber shell at the crime scene.
Austria said several
witnesses pointed to Jenkins as the alleged mastermind and financier of the
killing, while Sebastian and Joseph were tagged as the gunmen.
Panabang, for his
part, was the one who supposedly identified and pinpointed the young Aubord to
the gunmen.
Aside from the Aubord
case, Pagdilao said the CIDG-Cordillera has also solved the killings of Michael
Bernal also in Bangued last March and forester Kennedy Bayani in Luna, Apayao
last May.
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