No Gun Found in Pavia Suspects’ Home Raid

By Jennifer P. Rendon

No firearm was recovered during a police raid at the home of two brothers accused of killing the stay-in driver of Land Transportation Office (LTO) Region 6 Director Atty. Gaudioso Geduspan.

Police raided the house of alias Jester at Parc Regency Iloilo in Barangay Ungka II, Pavia, Iloilo on the evening of April 7.

Jessie, Jester’s brother, had also been staying in the same house since arriving in Iloilo last month from Clark, Pampanga, where he works as a security guard.

Pavia police chief Maj. Dadje Delima said they searched Jester’s home hoping to recover a .9mm pistol and a .22-caliber revolver allegedly used in the April 3 shooting of Wilmer Villarosa.

Following their arrest shortly after the incident, the suspects claimed they had thrown the weapons along their escape route.

Police filed a murder case against Jester and Jessie at the Iloilo Provincial Prosecutor’s Office on the morning of Saturday, April 6.

Jester, 45, a neighbor of Geduspan in Parc Regency, and Jessie, 40, a Clark-based security guard, are accused of killing Villarosa, a native of Janiuay, Iloilo.

The brothers were arrested at a police checkpoint in Barangay Aspera, Sara, Iloilo shortly before midnight on April 3.

Both suspects are originally from Sara.

CCTV footage captured the two men firing multiple shots at Villarosa while he stood outside his employer’s home at around 9:45 p.m. on Thursday.

Villarosa sustained five gunshot wounds and died at the scene.

The suspects fled in Jester’s white Isuzu Crosswind AUV but were intercepted during a police dragnet operation.