DOMESTIC QUARREL TURNS DEADLY

Victim reportedly sought Barangay Protection Order last August and later left husband

“Buhi pa ka, Gina? Tingog! Kung buhi pa ka! (Are you still alive, Gina? Speak! If you’re still alive!”)

This was what the mother of victim Gina Cabo, who was shot dead by her own husband yesterday in Sitio Iza, Barangay Inayawan, heard.

Gina, 48, a mother of two, was found bathed in blood, after her husband Aldrin Cabo Sr., 48, from Kaluwasan, Inayawan, shot her dead. He shot himself after.

The Pardo Police Station found that Aldrin was a retired Coast Guard officer.

At past 9 p.m., Aldrin, who was drunk and was carrying a .45 pistol, arrived at the house of Gina’s parents.

Aldrin went inside his in-laws’ house and had an argument with his wife in her room shortly before the shooting. Gina sustained five gunshot wounds.

Gina’s mother rushed out of the house and heard one more gunshot, which she thought was the one that killed Aldrin, who had a gunshot wound in the head.

There had been police and barangay reports on the conflict between Gina and Aldrin since August.

Last Aug. 19, Gina sought a Barangay Protection Order (BPO) in Barangay Inayawan because of financial, emotional, psychological and physical violence.

Gina and Aldrin were already dead when the Emergency Medical Services staff arrived.

Based on the BPO, Aldrin had violent tendencies and the reason for the recent conflict may have been jealousy, the police said.

Pardo Police Station Chief Regino Maramag said the first alarm was about an alleged hostage-taking in Gina’s house.

The police learned that Gina had decided to separate from Aldrin last month, but recently, the latter sent her a text message telling her that he’d kill her and himself.

Neighbors told the police that Gina had no extra-marital relationship despite the husband’s suspicion that she had one.

Aldrin’s gun is now at the PNP’s Scene of the Crime office for verification if it is registered.

Pardo Police considers the case closed.

On the same day, Eugene Cataos Diaz, 27, was also shot dead in Barangay Ocaña, Carcar.

Diaz, who was from Sitio Bonbon, Carcar, was asleep in his house when two men reportedly shot him at 10:50 p.m. last Friday.

Carcar Police found that Diaz was in the drug watchlist and that his death may have something to do with that.

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