Criminals seem to be lurking everywhere.
“At around 4am on Thursday, September 25, businesswoman Maria Luisa Ramirez was on her way to open her grocery store in Mandaluyong City when she was stabbed to death by robbers who fled with PHP5,000 in bills and coins,” reports Jaime Sinapit on InterAksyon.com.
According to Rodel Ramirez, the victim’s husband, told police that he ran into a still-unidentified man as he rushed through their compound in response to his wife’s call. He suspects the man could have been one of his wife’s killers.
Rodel revealed in Filipino, “He was wearing a cap and I thought he was a neighbor in our compound or a vistor. He walked out normally as if nothing had happened. I did not see his face as it was still dark.”
Rodel had gone a little bit ahead of his wife because he had to get their car. He heard her call for help after he started their car.
Rodel managed to bring his wife to the hospital, but the stab wounds to her chest and abdomen were too severe.
The report noted: “Police recovered a kitchen knife and an ice pick from an open canal in which the killers had thrown the weapons.”
Rodel said they had just transferred to the townhouse on Araullo Street in Barangay Addition Hills several months ago. They regularly left home to open their grocery store around 4am.
Though there were CCTV cameras inside and outside the compound, police said they were all not working. What made matters worse was that, as the report said, “the townhouse compound administrators had also recently discontinued the services of security guards.”
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