BACOLOD City – A father hacked his sleeping son to death in Barangay Canturay, Sipalay City, Negros Occidental.
The 20-year-old Art Gavilanes sustained hack wounds on the body, a police report showed.
His 73-year-old father Loreto hacked him using a bladed weapon around 12:20 p.m. on May 20, the report added.
Art was brought to the Sipalay City Health Center where the attending physician declared him “dead on arrival.”
It was not immediately established what was the motive in the incident.
Loreto was detained in the Sipalay City police station’s custodial facility, facing charges./PN
