CALBAYOG CITY, Samar
– A widower known around a village in
Calbayog
City
as trouble-maker and mentally imbalanced landed in city police jail
after he ran amuck leaving 9 people hacked to death while 18 others
wounded early Saturday morning.
Suspect Danilo Guades,
39, immediately surrendered to Fortunato Burbana, 63, with his 22-inch
bolo. The latter who also resides in Brgy. Gadgaran where the incident
took place turned over the suspect to the responding police officers
led by SPO4 Reynaldo Cajurao and the duty investigator PO3 Inocentes
Laure.
The police identified
the victims who died on the spot were as Gemma Jadulco, 32 and her
children, Jennylyn, 12; Jinggoy, 8; Renato, 3; Nadine, 2; and
Christine, 1; Candido Canteros, 46 and Eduardo Lecis, 35. Eric
Benjamin Poce, 7 died while treated at St. Camillus Hospital. The
victims were all residents of Purok 4, Brgy. Gadgaran, Calbayog City.
Wounded and presently
confined at the two hospitals in Calbayog were the Jadulco sisters
Joan, 4 and Jocelyn, 9; Maria Canteros, 37 and his son Danilo, 12;
Jennylyn Ceromenes, 16; Enis Lecis, 54; The Ramada family – Francisco,
56; Ernesto, 45; Armando, 35; Michael Caber, 31; Myra Manlapid, 24;
the couple Eddie Gonzaga, 47; Jocelyn, 44 and Carlito Layam, 46.
Also injured were
Emily Guades Ponce, 27, the suspect’s cousin; her husband Benjamin,
42; and their children Marilyn, 3 and Benjie, 5.
The suspect first
barged into the house of his cousin Emily Ponce at 2 a.m. and thereat
hacked her husband hitting him in the left shoulder and thereafter
hacked their children Eric and Benjie hitting them at the back of
their heads. Her daughter Marilyn was hit in the head and on her right
arm. Emily who was also hit in the head managed to jumped from the
window and was later able to hide with her children.
By entering through
the door, he attacked next the nearby house owned by Totoy Jadulco,
and hacked her wife and their 5 children in the different parts of
their body resulting to their death. Their 2 children Joan and Jocelyn
were treated and confined at the Calbayog Sanitarium and Hospital.
Totoy was reportedly at the Fish Port when the incident happened.
The suspect went also
to the Canteros residence and hacked the couple Candido and Maria and
their child Danilo. Candido died but his wife Maria and his son were
wounded and were brought to the St. Camillus Hospital in Calbayog
City.
At their backyard,
Carlito Layam whose house is adjacent with Canteros, managed to fight
back Guades but sustained slight injury on his right arm.
Guades then walked and
entered into the window the house of Enis Lecis with 8 family members
inside. Enis and Eduardo who were sleeping near the window were hit in
the head that resulted to the death of the latter while the former was
confined at Calbayog Sanitarium and Hospital.
The suspect then
proceeded to the wake of Teotime Ramada in Purok 2, Brgy. Gadgaran and
attacked the Ramada family where Francisco was hit at the throat,
Ernesto at his nape and Armando was stabbed on the left side of his
body. Michael Caber and Myra Manlapid was also injured but they were
also treated at the Calbayog Sanitarium and Hospital.
One who attended the
said wake fought back so Guades ran and reached the junction road
bound to Brgy. Bontay and thereat met the couple Eddie and Jocelyn
Gonzaga who were on board a motorcycle. The suspect who had a wooden
club and bolo hacked and stabbed Eddie hitting him in the right
armpit, right jaw and forehead while his wife sustained hematoma in
the left elbow. The driver of the motorcycle was able to escape.
Fred Saldaña, a
brother-in-law of Benjamin Ponce said that the suspect was jailed for
seven years at the Caloocan City Jail for stabbing to death his elder
brother. Benjamin disclosed that Toto, Danny’s brother died in the
80’s.
The suspect, according
to Saldaña used to sleep at Benjamin’s house since his wife died in
December last year. He said that Guades told him that somebody is
always chasing him. “He has already a mental problem,” he added.
Saldaña further said
that before the incident he saw Guades attending to his copra in the
farm, drunk for 2 days in the wake and slept also for 2 days skipping
his meals and when already awake he climbed coconut trees, ran to the
mangroves, and slept on the ground.
The suspect has a
child who is now a grade four pupil but was not around during the
killing spree.
“We will file multiple
murder and multiple frustrated murder charges against him,” the city
Officer-in-Charge P/Chief Inspector Aniceto B. Tecbobolan said. They
also submitted him to a drug test.
When interviewed by
the media, the suspect hardly remembers his age, said that the one he
killed was only his brother and that he has been detained for 2 days
when he is barely 1 day in the lock up cell.
