Man shoots former partner dead

CEBU, Philippines - A woman was shot dead by her former live-in partner late afternoon last Thursday in Barangay Tinaan, Naga City, after she refused to cohabit with him again as she was about to marry another man.

Rapunzel Ceballos, 35, succumbed to a gunshot wound in the left side of her chest while she was being rushed to the South General Hospital.

The alleged perpetrator was identified as a certain William “Ernie” Villordon who is still at large.

The victim’s father Jerome Ceballos, 61, said Villordon has been threatening his daughter saying “unsa man, abot na imong lungon nga akong gipadala?”

He added that he did not expect Villordon to just come and shoot his daughter who was outside their house at that time. All they heard was a single gunshot followed by a motorcycle zooming away. It was their neighbors who reported seeing Villordon on board the motorcycle.

Rapunzel and her current boyfriend were planning to get married in December.

Jerome said Villordon beat up his daughter often when they were still having a relationship and she often went to the Tinaan Barangay Hall to complain about him. He also said Villordon used drugs and had been in prison four times already.

In 2008, Rapunzel decided a break up with him and took their three children with her.

“Gusto siya (suspect) makig-uli pero dili na man mosugot akong anak kay nakakita na man siya ug hinigugma nga tarong,” Jerome said.

Police are now preparing charges against Villordon.

Meanwhile, the woman who was found dead in a river in Barangay Pangdan, Naga City, was already identified by her sister last Thursday evening.

However, her autopsy results showed she did not die of drowning as what Alfredo Largo, the suspect, claimed but rather of intra-abdominal hemorrhage due to blunt trauma said Chief Insp. Joe Martin Fuentes, medico-legal officer of the PNP Crime Laboratory-7.

Monchelo Caumeran went to the Naga Police Station and identified the body as Amabel Calinga, 33, of Barangay Busay, Cebu City. She also denied that her sister was a commercial sex worker.

Caumeran said that Calinga, a mother of three, would always leave their house to go somewhere if she was depressed, but she had no idea why the latter chose Naga City.

Calinga, who had wounds in her left eyebrow and mouth, was reportedly killed by Largo after he discovered he was missing P500 as they were getting dressed after having sex.

Largo, who admitted the crime, said that he had some drinks at the Baywalk in Barangay East Poblacion on Wednesday evening when Calinga joined him and later agreed to have sex with him for P200.

The two were brought to a remote area in Barangay Pangdan by motorcycle-for-hire driver Ritchie Canomon who later identified Largo for the police.

Largo said he and the victim had an argument when she denied having the money and he got angry and pulled her toward the river were he drowned her. He then took the P200 he paid the victim as well as her cellular phone then left.

But based on the autopsy result of Calinga, Fuentes revealed he found no signs that Calinga was drowned but instead she died of intra-abdominal hemorrhage due to blunt trauma.

This means that Calinga bled internally because of serious injury caused by a blunt object or collision with a blunt surface.

“Wala akong finding na drowning kasi walang tubig ‘yung baga posibleng binugbog or hit by a hard object,” Fuentes told The FREEMAN.

He added there was evidence of sexual contact but no evidence she was raped.

Chief Insp. Timmar Alam, Naga City police chief, said they sought assistance of a legal counsel for the official admission of Largo before the case was filed yesterday.

“Lisod man gud kay usab-usab iyang estorya mas maayo if naay lawyer gyud,” he said. (FREEMAN)