BACOLOD City – His elder sister found him lifeless inside his house at Canetown Subdivision in Barangay 19-A, Victorias City, Negros Occidental, a police report showed.
The 64-year-old Reynaldo Mentor was already in the state of decomposition when he was discovered around 4:30 p.m. on Friday, the report added.
His sister Evelyn said she went to Mentor’s house that day and smelled a foul odor she compared to that of a dead animal.
When Evelyn checked the house, she found her dead brother.
Mentor was believed to have been dead for three days, police said.
The body was brought to a local funeral home for a post-mortem examination.
Police were still investigating.
Laborer found dead in Ilog
He was found dead hanging from a tree in Sitio Punta Silay, Barangay 1, Ilog, Negros Occidental, a police report showed.
The 45-year-old laborer Jonathan Dema-usa was believed to have committed suicide.
But police have yet to rule out foul play in the death.
Dema-usa’s son John Lloyd found him around 6 a.m. on Friday.
Dema-usa was then rushed to the Lorenzo D. Zayco District Hospital in Kabankalan City where attending physician Dr. Isabelle Reyna Geraldoy pronounced him “dead on arrival.”
Investigation was still ongoing.
Noneco worker stabbed to death
A drinking binge resulted to a fatal stabbing incident in Sitio San Andres, Barangay Banquerohan, Cadiz City, Negros Occidental, police said.
The 55-year-old Edgardo Fernandez of Barangay Tortosa, Manapla, Negros Occidental sustained stab wounds on the stomach and chest, a police report showed.
Fernandez, a tender of the Northern Negros Electric Cooperative Cadiz City Office, was rushed to the Cadiz City Emergency Clinic where the attending physician pronounced him “dead on arrival.”
Police identified the suspect as the 22-year-old Barangay Banquerohan resident Oscar Ormisol.
Ormisol fled after the stabbing. The police were still locating him.
The incident happened around 9 p.m. on Friday. Fernandez, Ormisol and some of their friends were binge drinking when a heated argument ensued between the two.
Officers from the Cadiz City police station were still identifying the motive in the stabbing.
Gun, ammos seized from farmer
Police recovered a gun and ammunition from his house that was why he was arrested.
The 45-year-old farmer Jovanie Haspe of Barangay Bantayan, Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental was detained and facing charges for violation of Republic 10591, or the Comprehensive Firearms and Ammunition Regulation Act.
Officers from the Kabankalan City police station and 15th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army served Haspe with a search warrant around 6:30 a.m. on Friday.
Recovered from Haspe’s house were an improvised .357-caliber revolver (without serial number), four live bullets of the gun, a live bullet of a .38-caliber firearm, and a black holster, police said.
Judge Jose Manuel Lopez of the Municipal Trial Court in Cities in Kabankalan City issued the search warrant on July 26./PN
