02 November 2005
NBI asked to probe Pangasinan ambush
LINGAYEN – The live-in partner of the driver of a passenger van who was killed in an ambush last October 22 in barangay Seselangen, Sual, along with one of his passengers,, has asked the National Bureau of Investigation to investigate the killing.
Now confined at the Pangasinan Provincial Jail, Nena Bautista, once tagged as “shabu queen” of Alaminos City, has sought justice for the slaying of Allan de Guzman, 30, her live-in-partner for five years, till she was arrested last year.
Also killed in that incident was Gheorge Gringo Rivera, 18, a student, of Poblacion, Alaminos, son of a city councilor of Alaminos.
Wounded were Elizabeth Caaya, 60; Jell Abarra, 28; Ricky Catabay, 17, and Lilibeth dela Cruz. Three other passengers of the van were unscathed.
Bautista said she applied for a court order allowing her to go home to Alaminos City to see her dead live-in partner and to preside over his burial. In their five-year union, they did not have a child.
She said she will talk to the father of Rivera to persuade him to support her request for the NBI to investigate the incident to pave the way for the arrest of the perpetrators, including the mastermind.
The ambushers were seven hooded men armed with high-caliber firearms who were riding on two vans without plate numbers. The van was proceeding to Alaminos from Dagupan City when the gunmen opened fire.
The police initially said it was de Guzman who was really the target of the ambushers based on the trajectory of the bullets. A background check on him showed that he was involved in illegal drugs.
Bautista denied this, saying that if that were true, he should have had a lot of money but claimed he was always penniless every time he visits her at the Pangasinan Provincial Jail.
The police tagged de Guzman as the number one drug personality in Alaminos today.
He said the widow of the victim cooperated with the NBI all the way for the solution of the case even if her own close relatives would later turn out to be involved.
Mrs. Lopez’ family members had been tagged suspects from the start based on the entries in the prescription pad found by investigators in the victim’s car where he wrote that his father-in-law threatened to kill him on several occasions.
The widow corroborated this saying that his brother and father nurtured ill motives against her husband and wanted to see him dead. (PNA)
Now confined at the Pangasinan Provincial Jail, Nena Bautista, once tagged as “shabu queen” of Alaminos City, has sought justice for the slaying of Allan de Guzman, 30, her live-in-partner for five years, till she was arrested last year.
Also killed in that incident was Gheorge Gringo Rivera, 18, a student, of Poblacion, Alaminos, son of a city councilor of Alaminos.
Wounded were Elizabeth Caaya, 60; Jell Abarra, 28; Ricky Catabay, 17, and Lilibeth dela Cruz. Three other passengers of the van were unscathed.
Bautista said she applied for a court order allowing her to go home to Alaminos City to see her dead live-in partner and to preside over his burial. In their five-year union, they did not have a child.
She said she will talk to the father of Rivera to persuade him to support her request for the NBI to investigate the incident to pave the way for the arrest of the perpetrators, including the mastermind.
The ambushers were seven hooded men armed with high-caliber firearms who were riding on two vans without plate numbers. The van was proceeding to Alaminos from Dagupan City when the gunmen opened fire.
The police initially said it was de Guzman who was really the target of the ambushers based on the trajectory of the bullets. A background check on him showed that he was involved in illegal drugs.
Bautista denied this, saying that if that were true, he should have had a lot of money but claimed he was always penniless every time he visits her at the Pangasinan Provincial Jail.
The police tagged de Guzman as the number one drug personality in Alaminos today.
He said the widow of the victim cooperated with the NBI all the way for the solution of the case even if her own close relatives would later turn out to be involved.
Mrs. Lopez’ family members had been tagged suspects from the start based on the entries in the prescription pad found by investigators in the victim’s car where he wrote that his father-in-law threatened to kill him on several occasions.
The widow corroborated this saying that his brother and father nurtured ill motives against her husband and wanted to see him dead. (PNA)
