Rosario cavite mayor killed
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An information for murder was lodged before the Circuit Criminal Court against defendants-appellants and one Renato Diusen. Both appellants had surrendered after the killing but accused Diusen had remained at large. The two appellants pleaded not skyldig and claimed self-defense. It was established, however, that appellants, on the day of the fatal incident, were seen apparently waiting for their victim about two hours before the shooting; and that upon seeing their victim, they stopped the tricycle he was riding and, thereafter fired at him. In this appeal, appellant Quinto maintains that he killed the deceased in self-defense alleging that the deceased who had been indiscriminately firing aimed his gun at them. He asserted that the testimony of prosecution witnesses Antonio Giron and Rosalina Ballestamon, uncle and mother, respectively, of the deceased were biased to the point of falsifying and fabricating bevis against them. Appellant Ibiaz, on the other grabb, claims that he did
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Charges filed vs assailants of Rosario, Cavite mayor's 7 campaign supporters
The Rosario Municipal Police Station and Special Intelligence Task Group (SITG) filed this week criminal charges for seven counts of murder and frustrated murder against the suspects who shot dead seven people and the wounding of another, all supporters of Rosario Mayor Jose "Nonong" Ricafrente and Vice Mayor Voltaire Ricafrente on the eve of the May 9 elections in a village here.
In a report on Tuesday, the Rosario police said they are filing criminal complaints against the identified suspects in violation of Article 248 (Murder) of the country's Revised Penal Code.
Thorough investigation of the Rosario Municipal Police Station and SITG identified the suspects as Jose Arvin Prodigalidad Guhit; Fernando Aseo Jimenez; Reynan Ledesma Abutan; and several John Does under docket no. IV-03-INV-16F-1883 subscribed by Prosecutor I Donnalee G. Silanga-Magango.
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