Another suspect in Iloilo town shooting yields

By Glazyl Y. Masculino

BACOLOD City – The second suspect in the killing of a former seafarer in Dumangas, Iloilo surrendered to the police here on Thursday night, the same day that his father also surfaced to authorities earlier that day.

Police Colonel Noel Aliño, acting director of Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO), said that Jesus Dipus, Jr., 63, of Barangay Pagdugue, turned himself in to the police around 12 p.m.

Dipus’s son Jesus Philip also surrendered to the police around 9 p.m.

Aliño said the father and son travelled to Bacolod early Thursday and hid at their relative’s house here.

“We’re doing our best na hindi magiging taguan ng criminal dito,” the BCPO acting director said.

The father and son were accused of killing their relative Cezar Dipus Jr. at his house in Barangay Pagdugue, Dumangas last Wednesday.

The incident was discovered around 6:30 a.m. on June 28 after a neighbor saw the victim’s bloodied body.

Based on the investigation of the PNP Scene of the Crime Operation (SOCO) team, the victim sustained a gunshot wound on his neck with an exit wound on the right shoulder.

Police recovered from the crime scene two deformed fired bullets from an unknown firearm.