Actress Irma Adlawan and her 16-year-old son recently foiled a robbery at their home in Kawit, Cavite.
Mother and son had to physically wrestle intruder who was wielding a balisong (fan knife).
The incident happened at around 11pm on Thu, Feb 11. At that time only Adlawan, her son, and Adlawan’s parents were in the house.
Adlawan’s daughter, Mara Paulina Marasigan provides the entire account of what happened in a Facebook post.
We are reposting her account (with minor edits for clarity):
Sharing this for awareness, especially to people who live in our area in Kawit, Cavite — even though social media is very impersonal and won’t even come close to reflecting the trauma and anxiety that my relatives went through last night. Pardon how emotional this post will be.
Last night, a man named Ricardo Estorres, entered our house in Cavite where my mom, my 16-year-old brother, Ben, and my grandparents (both in their 80s) reside.
Ben went out to the family room at around 11pm last night because he thought that he left the fan turned on. He saw a man with a bandana wrapped around his nostrils and mouth.
The man took out a balisong, pointed it at my brother and said ‘Huwag kang maingay.’ My brother attributes his next moves to watching The Walking Dead — grabbed the balisong by the hilt with his bare hand, wrestled the guy, got him in a headlock, and shouted for my mom.
The guy bit Ben and my brother tried to bite back but couldn’t so he pushed the guy on the floor and hit him on the head. My mom came out of the room and helped Ben tackle the guy.
My grandfather, woken up by the commotion, came out with a gun but couldn’t fire because the guy was wrestling with my mom and my brother.
The man pleaded with my brother and my mom to stop when my mom had pinned him down on the floor with the knife at his neck.
The noise woke up our neighbors and Jun (Gretchen) called over the tanods and they rushed immediately to help my family.
At the police station, this guy admitted that there were three of them. Two people entered our house (the other one had already left the house) and one [served as a] lookout.
Estorres lives in Sta. Isabel while his two other accomplices live in Noveleta.
We thank our angels that no one was badly hurt in this incident. The only thing they were able to get was a used laptop. My brother sustained some gashes and had to get tetanus shots for the very deep bite mark that that slime left on him, my mom has a bruise on her forehead and my grandparents are in shock but it could’ve been so much worse.
