On Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023 local police in Argao, southern Cebu were still in the manhunt for Roberto Carillo Villamora Jr., the village chief of Panadtaran, of the said town, after he was pinpointed to have murdered his 39-year-old younger brother, Mark Anthony, at dawn of the same day.
The incident happened on Lakandula Street in Barangay Poblacion at 2:10 a.m. on Tuesday.
According to Argao Police Station Chief Major Andy Michael Roque, the Villamoras were in a billiard hall betting on two players before the incident happened.
He said Roberto and Mark had an argument and the brothers ended up leaving.
Roque admitted that they weren’t able to get any details from the billiard players or the bystanders because they had all gone when police arrived.
However, he said someone told them that Roberto was seen returning.
He said the victim’s pickup truck was parked outside the billiard hall, so the suspect must have fled aboard his car.
Roque said Mark was pronounced dead on arrival at the Isidro C. Kintanar Memorial Hospital in Barangay Poblacion.
He said the victim was shot in the chest.
Police recovered a slug from a 9mm pistol at the scene.
Based on the information they gathered, Mark was notorious for being ill-tempered whenever he was drunk.
Roque said that maybe Mark had said something spiteful to Roberto while they argued.
The station chief called on the barangay captain to surrender and face the consequences of his action.
Roque also urged relatives to convince Mark to turn himself in.
Barangay dad nabbed for rape
A day before, local police arrested one of the councilors of Barangay Sawang Calero, Cebu City after an arrest warrant was issued against him for rape.
According to Lt. Jerome Java, chief of the Sawang Calero Police Station, Carlo (not his real name) was arrested by virtue of a warrant of arrest issued by Judge Leah Iligan Geraldez of Cebu City Regional Trial Court Branch 20 with no bail recommended.
Java said they immediately served the electronic warrant of arrest against the suspect after receiving it at 5 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 27.
Upon seeing the police, Carlo did not resist arrest.
Java said Carlo was earlier sued by his live-in partner’s sister after the latter claimed that Carlo had raped her when she was still 15 years old in 2020.
Queen (not her real name) said the suspect, whom she treated as her own father, raped her five times.
She added the rape happened when her sister went out of the house.
She said she kept the situation a secret out of fear until September 2022, when she made the decision to inform her three elder brothers, who then asked a local radio station to help them.
The victim, accompanied by her siblings, went to the Women and Children’s Protection Desk (WCPD) of the Cebu City Police Office on Sept. 28 last year upon the local radio station’s advice.
The young girl was taken by the WCPD to the Pink Room of the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center for an examination, and the results revealed that she had been raped.
When SunStar Cebu interviewed him on Monday, Jerome declined to respond to questions about the allegations against him. (GPL, AYB / PJB, TPT)