ORMOC CITY– A man was found dead inside a KTV bar here where he worked as a caretaker with the police eyeing love triangle as a possible angle.
Lemuel Tapalla,47 and single, was discovered with stabbed wounds in the different parts of his body last Thursday(Feb.2) at about 9 pm inside a KTV bar located in Barangay District 5, this city.
Case investigator Police Cpl. Sherwin Silvano in an interview disclosed that their station received a call from a concerned citizen that there was a stabbing incident at the said KTV Bar.
He said that they immediately proceeded to say the place and learned based on the testimonies that the said victim was with a woman in one of the rooms of the said establishment.
Silvano further said quoting some witnesses, that at about 8:55 pm, an unidentified man wearing a black jacket arrived at the desk and asked if his wife was at the said place.
Suddenly the suspect went to Room 3 and stabbed the victim several times causing him to fall to the floor. After the incident, the suspect immediately fled.
Silvano said that they already have a person of interest in connection with the killing of Tapalla.
He suspects that the love triangle is the motive in the killing as the woman who was with the victim was a widower and said to have another lover.
(ROBERT DEJON)
