‘Teen found in Bulacan killed in drunken brawl’

The teenager who was reported missing in Caloocan since last month and found dead in San Jose del Monte, Bulacan last week was slain in a drunken brawl, police said yesterday.

“We have under our custody a suspect and a witness… We cannot give the details because…one…is a minor,” Superintendent Fitz Macariola, San Jose del Monte police chief, told The STAR yesterday.

Macariola said the San Jose del Monte and Caloocan po- lice would file the case even though two other suspects – a certain Mamo and alias Jonel – remain at large.

The minor was accompanied by his mother when he went to the police and narrated the incident that led to the death of Michael Angelo Remicio, 16.

With this development, police declared the case solved.

The boy earlier told police he saw Remicio Obando in Bulacan on Sept. 1.

Macariola said the boy told probers he and his friends were drinking liquor in Barangay 176 Bagong Silang, Caloocan at around 4 a.m. on Aug. 27 when Remicio hurled a bottle.

“The boy said they did not mind Remicio, but he continued badgering them…They… ganged up on him, stabbed him several times and covered his body with garbage,” Macariola said.

The boy said Remicio’s body was stuffed in a sack and thrown into the river.

Alexander Sinugay, 22, who is under the custody of the Caloocan police, claimed the minor killed Remicio.

Remicio’s decomposing body was discovered in a creek in Barangay Gaya-Gaya in San Jose del Monte on Sept. 13.

The parents of the teenager had earlier told police their son was not involved in illegal drugs.