ALL IN ONE WEEK//15 people, including 1-yr-old baby, dead in separate killings in Negros Oriental

From GMA News Online (Jul 26, 2019): ALL IN ONE WEEK//15 people, including 1-yr-old baby, dead in separate killings in Negros Oriental

A total of 15 people, including a one-year-old baby and several policemen, have been killed in separate shooting incidents in Negros Oriental that all happened in the space of one week.

A GMA News 24 Oras report on Friday said Marlon Ocampo and his one-year-old son were killed by suspected members of the New People's Army in Santa Catalina town Thursday night.

Ocampo's live-in partner, who got wounded, and their two other children survived the attack.

Authorities found a letter at the crime scene supposedly written by an alleged NPA member who claims Ocampo used to be a military asset.

In Guihulngan town, Barangay chair Romeo Alipan was killed also by suspected NPA members on the same day, Thursday.

In the same town, still Thursday, brothers Arthur Bayawa and Ardale Bayawa were also killed inside their house. Arthur was the principal of the Guihulngan City Science High School while his brother was city school division office chief.

Investigators are still trying to determine the motive behind the twin killings.

In Siaton, a motorcycle-riding assailant killed Raklin Astorias, who was also aboard his own motorcycle, on Thursday.

The Thursday killings spree happened just two days after lawyer Anthony Trinidad, 53, was shot dead. His wife Novie Marie was rushed to a hospital in Dumaguete City.

Initial police investigation showed that Trinidad was on board his sports utility van Tuesday afternoon when "riding-in-tandem" suspects approached his vehicle and shot him several times.

Guihulngan City Police chief Lieutenant Colonel Bonifacio Tecson said that Trinidad was among the names in a hit list by the Kawsa Guihulnganon Batok Komunista (KAGUBAK).

A day after the lawyer's killing, a man was also shot dead in Dumaguete City. He was identified as Ingwi Fabugays, said to be involved in petty crimes in the city.

He was killed while inside their home with his live-in partner and mother.

Also killed on Wednesday were rebel returnee Wenny Alegre and peasant leader Felimino Janayan, in Zamboangita.

In Ayungon town, meanwhile, Reden Eleuterio was killed by alleged communist rebels who suspected him of being a police asset.

Elueterio was the cousin of the four policemen tortured and killed by alleged NPA rebels last week, July 18. The slain lawmen were Police Corporal Relebert Beronio, Patrolman Raffy Callao, Patrolman Ruel Cabellon, and Patrolman Marquino de Leon.

An arrested suspected has already squealed on his six supposed accomplices. He said 20 others, whose identities he did not know, were also involved in the torture and killings.

President Rodrigo Duterte has already dangled a P3-million bounty for any information that will lead to the solving of the case.

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