By Francis Allan L. Angelo

 

THE best friend of a farm worker from Lambunao, Iloilo is suspected of beheading the latter in Dumangas, Iloilo January 1.

 

Senior Supt. Ricardo dela Paz, Iloilo Provincial Police Office director, said they have pinpointed the culprit in the beheading of Eduardo Lozarito, 18, of Brgy. Cayan Oeste, Lambunao.

 

Dela Paz said witnesses fingered John Sandoval of Sitio Buhang, Brgy. Ilaya First, Dumangas as the one who severed Lozarito’s head in the evening of January 1.

 

Lozarito’s body was found in a rice field January 2.

 

Dela Paz said Sandoval is Lozarito’s best friend. The suspect even allowed the victim to stay in his house while working in Dumangas.

 

Aside from Sandoval, the police also tagged brothers Reagan and Raymond Silva and Elpidio Legaspi, all residents of Ilaya First, as suspects in the grisly incident.

 

According to Dumangas police investigation, Lozarito earned Sandoval’s ire after the victim had a relationship with the suspect’s sister.

 

Lozarito was last seen alive in the evening of January 1 while answering a call in his cellphone. He then went out of Sandoval’s house until he was found dead the following day.