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Carl Arnaiz's 14-Year-Old Companion Found Dead in Nueva Ecija
Carl Arnaiz's 14-Year-Old Companion Found Dead in Nueva Ecija
“May isang residente doon po ang nakatuklas na may katawang lumutang sa creek
(There was a resident there who found a body floating in the creek),” Madria said.
The police chief said the parents of the boy positively identified the remains of their
son.
(The parents went there. The father identified that the body was indeed Reynaldo de
Guzman’s, the 14-year-old boy.)
The boy’s body bore stab wounds and his head was wrapped in packing tape, similar
to victims of vigilante killings.
De Guzman was last seen with Arnaiz on August 18 after the two went out for
midnight snack in their neighborhood in Barangay San Andres, Cainta, Rizal.
Arnaiz was found 10 days later, on August 28, at a morgue in Caloocan City after
allegedly fighting it out with the police.
Caloocan City Police claimed that Arnaiz, on the night he went missing, mugged a
taxi driver and fired at the police who tried to arrest him.
However, the autopsy report by the Public Attorney’s Office indicated that Arnaiz’s
body showed signs of torture before the time he was killed. IDL