Police Files
Suicide jump: Jobless AB English grad jumps to his death in Jalandoni Bridge
An AB English graduate of the West Visayas State University (WVSU) believed to have long been suffering from a mental illness took his own life and jumped to his death off Jalandoni Bridge.
With rescuers called in for the emergency rescue, efforts to revive the male victim failed with attending physicians of the Iloilo Doctor’s Hospital declaring him to be dead on arrival.
In a report, The News Today (TNT) gathered that the victim left the family home in Barangay Sinikway, Lapuz in La Paz District reportedly to look for a job. Witnesses told authorities of a ‘well-dressed’ male who calmly positioned himself at the center of the bridge then jumped off the railings.
It took some two hours for members of the volunteer rescue group to recover the victim’s body.
Cops net 2 rape suspects
Two rape suspects are now behind bars following separate police operations successfully conducted.
With no bail recommended, 44 year-old Norberto De Felix of Barangay Pangabuan, Jamindan Capiz will remain in police custody pending trial of the rape charges lodged against him.
Armed with an arrest warrant issued by Judge Daniel Amolar of Branch 21 in Roxas City, said accused was captured in Barangay Sablogon, Passi City, Iloilo. Police Superintendent Mario Abraham Linaming, chief of the Passi City Police Office led the operation augmented by operatives of the Jamindan Police.
Meantime, similar fate for one Ronald Flores who was arrested in La Paz District here following an arrest warrant issued that named him as accused in the three counts of rape charge.
Reached for comment, Flores told reporters he did not rape the 17 year-old victim but claimed that she was his girlfriend. He told authorities that the relationship got the ire of the parents reason why the girlfriend-victim was forced to file the charges.