ILOILO City – A 14-year-old boy was found dead in Barangay San Isidro, Jaro district on Saturday.
Residents found the body of Robert Misamen of Barangay Tacas, Jaro floating on the river at around 8:15 a.m. He was clad only in a pair of short pants.
Misamen’s mother Manilyn identified the remains as her son’s hours later, said Chief Inspector Tranquilino Querubin, Jaro police chief.
Police were still awaiting the result of the autopsy as of this writing.
Upon initial check of the body investigators found a wound on the head – suggesting that Misamen was hit with a hard object, Querubin said.
Police also theorized that the boy was killed somewhere else and his body was just dumped into the river.
Querubin said they were looking into the background of the victim. He said they learned he was out of school.
The mother told the police she last saw her son playing basketball in a court in Barangay Tacas with a relative at 3 p.m. on Friday. He failed to return home that day, she said.
“We have to locate the relative – the last person he (Misamen) was with,” Querubin said without naming the relative./PN
