Medellin, CNU give scholarship to brother of slain bank employee

CEBU, Philippines - The younger brother of a bank employee who was killed in Daanbantayan will finish his course for free at the Cebu Normal University – Medellin campus.

Medellin Mayor Ricardo Ramirez said that the municipal government will shoulder the expenses of Jevin John Migabon as full scholar.

Jennelyn Migabon, 26, was found dead along with a security guard and the latter's live-in partner inside Fairbank compound in Daanbantayan, Cebu on January 1, 2014.

She was reportedly paying the tuition of her brother, Jevin John, 21, who is studying education at CNU in Medellin.

"Agi'g tabang gikan kanamo nga opisyales sa lungsod, among gipahibalo ang CNU Medellin nga wala nay bayranan sa matrikula ang iyang manghud kutob sa pag-gradwar agi'g tabang gikan kanamo para sa pamilyang nagbangutan," Ramirez said.

Ramirez said that they will also try their best what more they can extend to the family such as scholarships to other siblings.

Jennelyn whose family is living in in Barangay Dayhagon, Medellin was shot dead by a dismissed security guard while working overtime before New Year's Eve.

She worked as an accounting clerk at the First Agro-Industrial Rural Bank Inc., or Fair Bank in Daanbantayan.

Suspect Berly Tudtud, 28, will be facing charges for robbery with multiple homicide after he gunned down the three victims and carted away P80,000 from the bank where he was assigned. 

Tudtud reportedly used his service 12 gauge shotgun in shooting at his buddy security guard, Dean Deserto, 26, and his live-in partner, Cecilia Torre, 30, both of Barangay Dakit, Barili town, and Jennelyn.

Tudtud and Deserto were both under Ricarte Security Agency located in Barangay East Poblacion, Naga City. They were buddies as nightshift security guards of the bank.

All victims succumbed to a gunshot wound in the head. They were no longer taken to the hospital as the cadavers were discovered almost 7:00 in the morning the following day by incoming security guard Bernardo Veraque.— (FREEMAN)