By Glazyl Y. Masculino
BACOLOD City – Police have no lead yet on the motive and the identity of the perpetrators in the killing of a man in Barangay Tortosa, Manapla, Negros Occidental last Saturday.
Police Major Jaynick Bermudez, town police chief, said the victim was identified by his live-in partner as Reynald Quiatchon, 30, of Barangay Taculing here.
Despite the victim’s identification, authorities find it difficult to establish a lead on the case as they have yet to talk to the victim’s family.
Bermudez said the victim’s family has yet to return to the police station, thus they could not get more information to help their investigation.
Quiatchon’s hands were tied and his mouth was sealed with packaging tape when a passerby found him near a sugarcane field.
Police recovered from the scene two fired .45-caliber bullets and a placard with the words “Wag Tularan, Kawatan Ako (Don’t follow, I am a thief).”
Bermudez said they received information that Quiatchon was allegedly involved in a theft case here.
But they will conduct their own investigation to determine the motive for his death.
He said Quiatchon’s remains were subjected to a postmortem examination after they failed to get consent from the family for autopsy.
Meanwhile, Police Captain Dax Santillan, head of Police Station 6, said that Quiatchon was allegedly tagged as a “person of interest” in the case of missing fighting cocks in Barangay Taculing a few months ago.
But the complainant did not press charges against him.
He said that it’s been a month since Quiatchon and his family left the village after their house was demolished.
