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Friday, January 10, 2003
Aznar scion killed with own .9mm gun
By Minerva B. Gerodias
CEBU -- A controversial son of the Aznar clan died Thursday morning because of a gunshot wound in his head, in what police investigators suspect was a case of suicide.
But the family of Christopher Jake Aznar, 24, said it was an accident.
"Maybe he was playing with his gun and it accidentally went off," said Maria Crisanta Gueco, one of two women living with Aznar in their compound in Urgello St., Cebu City.
The bullet entered Aznar's right upper lip and went through the top of his head. Police found a .9mm pistol and an empty shell in the room where the shooting happened. The shell was in the crib of Aznar's six-month-old son.
Aznar was in the room with live-in partner Winsil Badajos and their baby when a shot rang out about 5:30 a.m. Thursday.
Gueco said she has accepted the fact that Aznar has another woman and that they are friends. Both women comforted each other after learning that Aznar did not make it in the hospital.
Badajos told the police that she noticed Aznar enter their room around 5:30 a.m. already holding a gun.
"Nag-sige kuno og tion-tion unya iyang gibadlong nga ayaw ana. Dayon giatiman niya ang bata kay nakamata man. Dayon buto na lang iyang nadunggan," SPO2 Alex Dacua of the homicide section said, quoting Badajos. (He pointed the gun at himself and she told him to stop it. She then attended to her son and then she heard a gunshot.)
Aznar was a cousin of Josman Aznar who was convicted with seven others in the kidnapping and illegal detention of the Chiong sisters in 1999 (the case is on appeal), and a nephew of Jongjong Aznar, who is doing time in Muntinlupa.
For the past five years, Jake Aznar faced at least five charges, from kidnapping to illegal possession of firearms and violation of the Dangerous Drugs Law. He always posted bail.
Aside from his son with Badajos, Aznar left three other children behind.
Aznar sired a five-year-old son with Gueco. He also had two children with another woman, a certain Dianne of Leyte, but she does not live in the compound.
Paraffin test
Aznar and Badajos, 22, live in a separate house in the compound, while Gueco, 24, lives in a room of the main house.
Aznar's mother, Consuelo, is maintaining a boarding house in the compound.
Aznar was first brought to Sacred Heart Hospital and was later transferred to Cebu Doctors' Hospital where he was declared dead at 8:45 a.m. yesterday.
Aznar's remains were brought to Cosmopolitan Funeral Homes.
The homicide section has requested the PNP Crime Laboratory to subject both Aznar and Badajos to a paraffin test.
This is to confirm if Aznar recently fired a gun and to erase doubts against Badajos.
Badajos also told the police that Aznar and his mother had an argument prior to the shooting. She did not elaborate.
Badajos refused to be interviewed by reporters who went to the place to cover the incident.
Supt. Joshua Gillamac, Consuelo's relative, also went to the area and said Aznar went to his house last Wednesday.
Aznar confided to him some family problems and even told him that his mother had scolded him.
Consuelo said her arguments with her son were petty and that the recent one could not be the reason for
his death.
"Nagluto gud ko og pagkaon kay mokaon siya. Ginagmay ra na among lalis.... Ang iyang problema kanang mga kaso nga wa niya nabuhat, mao ra nay akong ikasulti," Consuelo said. (I was cooking for him. We had petty arguments but his problem is the cases filed against him for acts that he did not commit.)
"Yes, he had arguments with everybody here but he did not take these seriously. Jake was a very happy man. I know he would not kill himself. Yesterday, he was still joking with me so his death was very unexpected," Gueco said.
Complaints
But Gueco admitted that the kidnapping and frustrated homicide complaints filed by the National Bureau of Investigation bothered him.
In October 1998, Aznar, with two others, was arrested and charged for allegedly stealing objects from several cars parked inside a subdivision in Barangay Talamban, Cebu City.
A year after, Aznar and his friend Benjamin Lipar were sued for robbery and kidnapping after they allegedly blocked the car of Vincent Navales at the reclamation area, chased him and took some P47,000 cash and P20,000 jewelry from him at gunpoint.
They allegedly brought Navales, who was with his family, to Logarta St. where he was mauled and told to wait for another police car to pick them up.
In August 2000, theft suspect Joseph B. Siroy, 18, of Alaska, Mambaling, alleged that Aznar mauled him several times, struck him with a .45 pistol, and locked him up inside a dog cage without any clothes on inside their house on Urgello St. about 4 a.m.
In January 2001, Aznar, with Rodrigo Delubio and Ferdie de la Cerna, was arrested for allegedly snatching the Nokia 8810 cellular phone, worth P35,000, of Olympia Abenales while she was at the door of the Iglesia ni Cristo chapel in Labangon.
Three months after, Aznar with his friend Paul Anthony Posadas, was arrested again for illegal possession of a firearm and use of illegal drugs.
Pot session
They were allegedly caught in the middle of a pot session in Aznar's residence when the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group 7 arrested them.
In July of the same year, operatives of the Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Bureau arrested Aznar for illegal possession of a firearm, bullets and prohibited drugs during a raid in his residence.
In October last year, the NBI filed a complaint for kidnapping with frustrated homicide against Aznar before the Cebu City Prose-cutor's Office.
Aznar, together with a certain Kalay, allegedly went to the house of Richard Satiembre last Aug. 11 and forced him at gunpoint into a waiting car.
Satiembre was then brought to the Aznar residence and taken to Aznar's room where he was questioned about a missing .357 pistol.
When Satiembre denied knowledge, the two allegedly mauled him and Aznar tried to shoot him, but the gun misfired.
When the gun was pointed to the floor, it went off, and the hole it caused caught the attention of Aznar's mother. After that, Satiembre was handcuffed, dragged outside and pushed into the car's compartment. Sun.Star Cebu |
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