2 PASAY JAIL INMATES BEATEN TO DEATH

An autopsy report on Tuesday revealed that two inmates at the Pasay City jail died due to “traumatic injuries.”

Supt. Gene Licud, Pasay assistant chief of police for operations, told the Inquirer that Eduardo Angeles, 48, and Arman Castillo, 32, had likely been hit on the head with a blunt object before they died.

Two Sigue Sigue Sputnik gang members, Elinoe Washington, 32, and Benjamin Cruz, 40, were believed to be behind the victims’ beating although the cause of the brawl was still unclear.

A report from Senior Insp. Maynard Pascual said that Angeles and Castillo were rushed from the Station Drug Enforcement Team custodial facility to Pasay General Hospital around 7 a.m on Monday. They were declared dead on arrival.

Jailer on duty relieved

Licud said that the jailer on duty at the time, PO1 Anthony Fernandez, was temporarily relieved pending an investigation.

He added that Fernandez had seen a “commotion” brewing through the closed-circuit television camera inside the cell, prompting him to rush to the facility where both victims were found lying on the ground.

Their deaths came less than two weeks after another inmate, Domingo delos Santos, became the third to die at the Pasay City police station due to the scorching summer heat and congestion in the facility.