Frustrated slay ends in amicable settlement

By Gina Dizon  

PARACELIS, Mountain Province -- A case of  frustrated murder was amicably settled  through the intervention of elders done the customary way in the case of accused  Rejic Lamong and victim Robert Angnganay both residents of Poblacion Paracelis.   

With facilitation from the peace and order committee members and chairman Mike Assud of the Sangguniang Bayan here, intervening elders compelled the accused to pay P180,000 for damages he caused the victim.

This, as the resolution of the case arrived at an amicable settlement is soon to reach the Regional Trial Court in Bontoc where the case was filed September this year.

Angnganay from Tanudan, Kalinga  and  Lamong from  Natonin both residents of Poblacion Paracelis met in one of the liquor bars at Poblacion in one drunken stupor which resulted to the accused shooting the victim last September.