From the Visayan Daily Star (Mar 14): Police: Two RPA-ABB men may have been killed for guns
A former Army soldier-turned hacienda watchman may have gone to the extreme by allegedly killing two members of the Revolutionary Proletarian Army-Alex Boncayao Brigade on Tuesday in La Castellana, Negros Occidental, just to get their high-powered guns.
The victims succumbed to multiple gunshot wounds.
This possibility was raised yesterday by Senior Inspector Ruben Pajarito, La Castellana police chief, who said he believes that the two victims had been set up by the suspect, identified as Carlo Apostol, who reportedly used to work also as a security guard.
Pajarito said Apostol had invited the two, Jomar Toritcilla and Lenmar Pat, to a drinking spree, as he was celebrating his birthday at the compound of Hacienda Angelita, Brgy. Sag-ang in La Castellana.
Apaostol reportedly took the M-14 assault rifle and KG9 sub machine gun of the two victims, before fleeing from the crime scene, Pajarito said.
Two counts of murder are now being prepared by the La Castellana police for filing against Apostol, who is still at-large.
Pajarito said he has dispatched investigators to verify the affiliation of Apostol to a security agency inBacolod City
La Castellana police investigators recovered 13 empty shells believes to be those of a .45 caliber pistol at the crime scene.
Pajarito said they are also looking into claims that Apostol may be connected with the New People's Army.
More than 700 firearms and explosives believed possessed by RPA-ABB members have been the target for recovery by the NPA, after the break-up of the revolutionary movement in Negros in the early 1990s.
http://www.visayandailystar.com/2014/March/14/topstory11.htm
A former Army soldier-turned hacienda watchman may have gone to the extreme by allegedly killing two members of the Revolutionary Proletarian Army-Alex Boncayao Brigade on Tuesday in La Castellana, Negros Occidental, just to get their high-powered guns.
The victims succumbed to multiple gunshot wounds.
This possibility was raised yesterday by Senior Inspector Ruben Pajarito, La Castellana police chief, who said he believes that the two victims had been set up by the suspect, identified as Carlo Apostol, who reportedly used to work also as a security guard.
Pajarito said Apostol had invited the two, Jomar Toritcilla and Lenmar Pat, to a drinking spree, as he was celebrating his birthday at the compound of Hacienda Angelita, Brgy. Sag-ang in La Castellana.
Apaostol reportedly took the M-14 assault rifle and KG9 sub machine gun of the two victims, before fleeing from the crime scene, Pajarito said.
Two counts of murder are now being prepared by the La Castellana police for filing against Apostol, who is still at-large.
Pajarito said he has dispatched investigators to verify the affiliation of Apostol to a security agency in
La Castellana police investigators recovered 13 empty shells believes to be those of a .45 caliber pistol at the crime scene.
Pajarito said they are also looking into claims that Apostol may be connected with the New People's Army.
More than 700 firearms and explosives believed possessed by RPA-ABB members have been the target for recovery by the NPA, after the break-up of the revolutionary movement in Negros in the early 1990s.
http://www.visayandailystar.com/2014/March/14/topstory11.htm