Carl Arnaiz’s 14-year-old

companion found dead in

Nueva Ecija
The 14-year-old boy who went missing at the time teenager Carl Angelo Arnaiz was
killed was found dead in Gapan City, Nueva Ecija, a police official confirmed
Wednesday.
Gapan City Police Chief PSupt. Peter Madria confirmed to INQUIRER.net that the
missing teen, Reynaldo de Guzman, was found at Dariz Funeral Home in Barangay
(village) San Roque on Tuesday.
Madria said a resident discovered the body at a creek at around 11:30 a.m. It was
reported to the police at around 1:30 p.m.

“May isang residente doon po ang nakatuklas na may katawang lumutang sa creek
(There was a resident there who found a body floating in the creek),” Madria said.

The police chief said the parents of the boy positively identified the remains of their
son.

“Nagpunta po ‘yung magulang, ‘yung tatay, in-identify po nila na ‘yun si Reynaldo

de Guzman, 14 years old,” he said.

(The parents went there. The father identified that the body was indeed Reynaldo de
Guzman’s, the 14-year-old boy.)

The boy’s body bore stab wounds and his head was wrapped in packing tape, similar
to victims of vigilante killings.

The police have yet to conduct an autopsy on the boy’s body.

De Guzman was last seen with Arnaiz on August 18 after the two went out for
midnight snack in their neighborhood in Barangay San Andres, Cainta, Rizal.
Arnaiz was found 10 days later, on August 28, at a morgue in Caloocan City after
allegedly fighting it out with the police.

Caloocan City Police claimed that Arnaiz, on the night he went missing, mugged a
taxi driver and fired at the police who tried to arrest him.

However, the autopsy report by the Public Attorney’s Office indicated that Arnaiz’s
body showed signs of torture before the time he was killed. IDL

Village peacekeeper found

murdered in Cabanatuan
CABANATUAN CITY – A 65-year-old member of the village peacekeeping
group in Barangay Caalibangbangan in this city, was found dead, wrapped in a
blanket and with wire coiled around his neck on Sunday (July 23).
The face of Marcelo Pangilinan of the barangay peacekeeping action team (BPAT)
was covered with a sack, while his hands were bound with packaging tape. His
killer or killers wrote down a note along the tape which described Pangilinan as a
drug pusher. The note also implicated other village officials.
“Pusher ako. Protektor ko si Kapitan at lahat ng kuto nito (I am a pusher. I am
protected by Kapitan and all his underlings),” the note reads.

Investigators recovered three sachets of alleged shabu (methamphetamine

hydrochloride) from the victim’s body, police said.
The village chair and the police have yet to comment on the killer’s note. SFM