Hazing survivor calls 117, seeks help for schoolmate beaten to death

Friends of Guillo Servando, a hazing victim during the wake. / Photo courtesy of Richard A. Reyes, Philippine Daily Inquirer

MANILA — A schoolmate of frat hazing victim Guillo Cesar Servando, who was beaten to death during an initiation, was reported to have called the police after Servando lost consciousness on Saturday.

John Paul Raval, a hazing survivor called the Philippine National Police’s emergency hotline Patrol 117 hours after the hazing.

Raval reported how his friend Servando was in a bad condition and sought help from the Philippine National Red Cross (PNRC).

He, however, did not said that Servando was a victim  of hazing but narrated that he only found the the victim drunk, lying on the floor and no longer moving.

Raval and the two other having survivors, Lorenzo Agustin, 18 and a 17-year-old boy were brought to the hospital by PNRC team who arrived after the call.

Servando was found lying on the floor and was no longer breathing while the survivors were taken to the Ospital ng Maynila and later to the Philippine General Hospital. 

Police reports showed that the four victims were brought to a hazing place in Palanan, Makati by a man they call “Aircon.”

The initiation rites were then held an the victims were allegedly beaten up for three hours by about 11 men using belts, paddles, and their fists.

The victims were then brought to Raval’s condo unit and two men identified as Hans Tamaring and Trex Garcia were reported to have left the unit.

The police are now conducting an investigation on the incident.