- GILBERT BAYORAN
A policeman and two civilians died while two other police troopers and a civilian were injured in a stabbing incident at about 1 a.m. Friday, March 31, in Brgy. Salvacion, Murcia, Negros Occidental.
Declared dead on arrival at the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital in Bacolod City were P/Cpl. Gabby Castillo and two civilians identified as Benedict Maguad and Marvin Guardavilla, the Murcia police said.
Injured were P/SSgt. Namelou Sapuan, P/SSgt. Jaytie Misme, and Fernando Diaz.
Initial police investigations showed that Sapuan, accompanied by Castillo, Misme, and Maguad, were on their way to deliver money to Maguad’s residence in Brgy. Salvacion, when they decided to dropped by the Handy’s Restobar in the area.
The three police officers, who were in civilian clothes, were drinking liquor inside the restobar when a commotion ensued outside involving Marjune Gallano and Guardavilla, Murcia police chief, Maj. Marc Joeil Reclamado, said.
Reclamado said that Gallano stabbed Guardavilla.
The three police officers, assigned at the 2nd Provincial Mobile Force Company stationed at a police outpost in Brgy. Dulao, Bago City, went outside the restobar in an attempt to pacify the commotion.
However, they were also attacked and stabbed by Gallano, who hit Castillo in his abdomen, while Sapuan and Misme suffered stab injuries in the right armpit, back and right arm, police investigations showed.
Misme also sustained a gunshot wound in his left thigh, which Reclamado believes was caused by an accidental firing.
The owner of the restobar, identified as Fernando Diaz, also suffered a stab wound in the back.
Maguad, who sustained stab wounds in his left thigh and left arm, was brought to the CLMMRH in Bacolod City along with Castillo and Guardavilla. All three died in the hospital.
Follow-up operations conducted by the Murcia police led to the arrest of Marjune Gallano, Jojie Gallano, and a certain Ching Jingco. They are all detained at the Murcia police jail.
Recovered at the scene of incident were the two issued 9mm pistols of Castillo and Misme.
Sapuan and Misme, who were brought to the Riverside Medical Center in Bacolod City, are now in stable condition, while Diaz is also confined at the CLMMRH./GB
