• GILBERT P. BAYORAN
A minor and two others were found dead on Saturday in Sitio Buyong, Brgy. Cabia-an, Candoni, Negros Occidental.
Two of the victims were identified by the police as Analie Emaray, 44, and Edmund Castro, 45. The identity of the 9-year old boy has been withheld by the police.
Initial police investigations revealed that Emaray succumbed to a gunshot injury at her upper eyebrow and chest, while Castro sustained multiple gunshot injuries.
The minor, on other hand, suffered hack wounds on his neck and head.
PMaj. Ruel Culanag, officer in charge of the Candoni Police Station, in his report to the Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office, said he has requested for the conduct of a post mortem examination on the cadavers of the victims.
Culanag raised the possibility that more than two suspects were involved in the commission of the crime.
Investigations of the Candoni police further showed that Castro and his son were searching for their missing carabao, three days prior to the incident.*