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Saturday, June 24, 2006
Wanted for murder, 2 members surrender to police
By Jovy S. Taghoy
Sun.Star Staff Reporter
Two members of the Alpha Phi Omega (APO) fraternity surrendered to the police after a court ordered their arrest for the murder of a graduating college student late last year.
Gian Paulo Teves, 21, of Urgello St., and Fabiano Migraso Jr., 22, of Visitacion St., both in Barangay Sambag I, Cebu City, surrendered to the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) 7 at 2:30 p.m. last Wednesday.
Teves and Migraso yielded to SPO3 Joseph Herbert Montesclaros, the CIDG 7’s evidence custodian, after learning that Judge Sylvia Aguirre-Paderanga of the Regional Trial Court Branch 16 issued an arrest warrant against them.
They were linked to the killing of Christian A. Peñalosa, 23, in November last year.
Peñalosa, a fifth-year civil engineering student and a chapter president of the Scouts Royale Brotherhood (SRB), died three days after three men allegedly mauled him at 8:35 p.m. outside a university in Sitio Nasipit, Barangay Talamban.
According to an investigation by the Cebu City Police Homicide Section and based on witnesses’ accounts, the three men were later identified as Teves, Migraso and Manny Bontilao, who were described as APO members.
Bontilao was arrested last Tuesday by elements of the Talamban Police Station.
Since murder is a heinous crime, Judge Padera-nga did not grant bail for the three accused.
But Helen, Migraso’s mother, told reporters at the CIDG 7 yesterday that her son was innocent and urged the witnesses to show up and clear his name.
Migraso and Teves refused to speak with the reporters, upon the advice of their legal counsel.
Ophelia, Peñalosa’s mother, said that before her son died at the hospital, he was able to tell her the names of his assailants. Like Migraso’s mother, Peñalosa also went to the CIDG 7 yesterday.
“Mura’g iro ang akong anak nga ilang gitabangan og kulata (They ganged up on my son as if he were a dog). God is just. I believe there is still a good justice system that will prosecute them,” Ophelia said.
Ophelia also said the camps of the three accused tried several times to settle the case out of court, but she turned down the offers.
She said she wanted to seek justice not only for her son, but for the other would-be victims of fraternity-related violence.
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