Entries Tagged as 'Unsolved crimes'

Monday, August 18th, 2008

A boy and a self-proclaimed “vigilante” among the nine persons dead

CASE DETAILS: Nine persons, one of whom a boy, have been killed, while another person has survived in attack in separate incidents in the cities of Cagayan de Oro, Davao, General Santos, Tagum and a municipality in Davao del Sur. One of those dead though was a witness who killed himself due to fear […]

Monday, July 14th, 2008

These deaths render police, court useless

CASE BRIEFS: From July 7 to 9, six persons, one of whom a foreign national, were reported to have been murdered in separate incidents. Two crime suspects were murdered over revenge rendering courts useless; three others were killed by “vigilantes” and one over continuing unsolved robbery cases.
In Cases No. 2 and 5, these murders explain […]

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

Bloody trail of pattern of murders

MURDER TRAIL: In our previous reports, we already mentioned several cases involving murders of former detainees; and those murdered in connection with the continuing unsolved robbery incidents. On June 18 and 19, another motorcycle taxi driver in General Santos City and a former detainee in Tagum City were murdered respectively once again.
The photo above is […]

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Shot in broad daylight

AT GLANCE: Three days after a motorcycle taxi driver was killed, another driver, Jerry Balono, had been killed in broad daylight. His passenger shot him first on the back but as he was already wounded, two other gunmen repeatedly shot him to finish him off. The police claimed to have identified those responsible for […]

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

Yet another motorcycle taxi driver murdered

AT GLANCE: On June 4, another motorcycle taxi driver, Alfredo Coronel, had been killed by gunmen riding on motorcycle who attempted to forcibly steal his motorcycle from him. Alfredo’s murder adds on to the unabated murders of motorcycle taxi drivers in General Santos City. Those responsible have not been identified, arrested and charged […]

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

Attackers kills eight on “vigilante” pretexts in separate incidents

AT GLANCE: From May 28 to June 3, a local newspaper, Sun.Star, reported eight deaths of persons, two of whom were minors, on pretexts of “vigilante killings” and “gang war” respectively from the cities of General Santos, Davao and Cagayan de Oro, all in Mindanao. The victims, who were murdered by shooting and stabbing, were […]

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Rights body urge to probe pattern of deprivation of lives

AT GLANCE: Today, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) in Hong Kong has issued an open letter to Commissioner Leila De Lima, the newly appointed head of the Commission on Human Rights in the Philippines (CHRP), seeking for their adequate action into probing the various forms of arbitrary deprivation of lives in the country. […]

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Gunmen kills old victim’s bro; another shot dead

In a span of one day, two persons have been killed, one of whom was a younger brother of a driver who was himself killed in April 27, in separate incidents in General Santos City, once again. One of the victim’s nephew, who had survived the attack, had come close eye contact with […]

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

No tattoo, why was he killed?

When this victim is killed, the police investigator was baffled why he should be killed. Preoccupied by his notion that only criminal suspects, for him usually had tattoo, had been target of murders in General Santos City, then who is this murdered victim? The police’ insinuation had been proven wrong. This person is no […]

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

Two murders in their houses; one in crowd

On May 21 and 22, three men had been murdered in Davao and Tagum Cities, Mindanao. Two of the victims were shot dead inside and just outside their house by gunmen riding on motorcycles. The other one, whom the police claimed was killed on pretext of “gang war“, was shot in a crowded place.