By RALPH JOHN MIJARES
ROXAS City — Supt. Julio Gustilo Jr., city police chief, was dismayed by the dismissal of the murder case filed against four security guards of Filamer Christian University over the death of an electronics engineering student.
Gustilo said the case should have just been downgraded to homicide.
He cited Toni Russell Casipe’s “aggressiveness” to break free when the guards were tying up his legs using a nylon cord.
He also said something could have happened to Casipe before he had a heart failure. He did not elaborate.
Rojien Borbon, Wilbert Opeñano, Hubert Villaluz, and Henry Brillo were charged with murder and detained in the city police station.
The City Prosecutor’s Office dismissed the case on July 10. The suspects were released at about 5 p.m. the following day.
He said the guards should have taken Casipe to the hospital.
The university’s annex campus in San Lorenzo Village, Barangay Punta Tabuc here, is only a few meters away from Capiz Emmanuel Hospital./PN
