Parsons charged with frustrated homicide

Police filed yesterday homicide and frustrated homicide charges against former Hagibis member and action star Sonny Parsons for killing two robbers and wounding another during a shootout after a successful robbery at his house in Marikina City Thursday.

Superintendent Cipriano Querol Jr., Marikina City police chief said Parsons (Jose Nabiula in real life) was charged on the basis of an ante mortem statement of the wounded robber, Joram Gacete, 24.

In his hospital bed at the Amang Rodriguez Memorial Hospital where he was recuperating from four gunshot wounds in the abdomen, Gacete claimed he was shot at close range. However, Querol clarified that Gacete failed to identify Parsons as his attacker.

Querol also filed grave threats and robbery in band charges against Gacete, of Batasan Hills, Fairview, Quezon City.

Prosecutor Linda Conus, of the Marikina City prosecutor’s office ordered the arrest of Gacete after Parsons and other members of the actor’s household positively identified him as one of the robbers who hogtied and robbed them last Thursday. Conus, however, ordered the release of Parsons "for further investigation."

Meanwhile, Querol dispatched a police car to the vicinity of Parsons’ residence at 44 corner Bronze and Rainbow Sts. in SSS Village, Concepcion Dos when his family started getting death threats after last Thursday’s encounter that left two robbers killed and Gacete wounded. The threat was contained in a piece of paper lobbed into the backyard of Parsons’ house.

Querol identified the two slain robbers as Rodgin Baguinat, 20, a bus conductor, a native of Dipolog City and residing at 262 Dakila St., Batasan Hills and Joemar Mercado, 23, a construction worker, a native of Camarines Sur and of Peñafrancia Subdivision, Antipolo City. According to Querol, Baguinat was positively identified as among those who robbed two weeks ago the residence of Romeo Reyes at 18 Kingsway St., Fairlane Subdivision, Concepcion Uno of assorted jewelry worth P200,000. Like in the case of Parsons, the Reyes family was also hogtied before they were robbed, said Querol. The robbers gained entry into Parsons house after one of his housemaids sent one of his children off on a school bus.

Parsons was roused from his sleep by the muzzle of a gun.

After they were all hogtied, Parsons said the robbers tried to rape one of his daughters but he pleaded to take all they could and leave immediately because a patrol car crew would take their breakfast in their house. Before leaving, one of the robbers squeezed the trigger of his Magnum .357 revolver on Parson’s head but luckily it misfired.