This is the kind of news that would shock you into being awake.
“At around 3am on Sunday, May 4, two men—Musushi Tamano Lucman and Mohammad Ikles Mindalano—picked up two women near Selenna Hotel in Cubao, Quezon City,” reports Reinir Padua in The Philippine Star.
Lucman and Mindalano and their respective “partners” then checked into the hotel. They were given rooms on the third floor.
Mindalano said that at around 6am, three hours after they checked in, he heard a thud and shouts coming from Lucman’s room. He, however, only reported the incident to hotel staff 30 minutes after he heard the noises.
The hotel’s officer-in-charge, Bonifacio Jimenez, then knocked on Lucman’s door. He said the suspect opened the door but appeared to be sweating and fidgeting. Jimenez decided to call a housekeeper. However, as they were about to enter the room, Lucman made a run for it. He managed to jump from the fire exit.
When they went into the room, Jimenez said they found the woman in the bathroom, with the towel used to strangle her to death still looped around her neck. The woman, who was described to be around her 20s, was wearing an orange shirt and denim pants.
Investigators later discovered that the bag Lucman left behind “contained a sachet of what they believed to be dried marijuana leaves.”
Lucman is still at large.
Photo by Yumi Kimura (WikiCommons)
