{"id":16843,"date":"2014-06-25T13:46:26","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T05:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=16843"},"modified":"2014-07-09T20:15:50","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T12:15:50","slug":"10-hour-hostage-drama-ends-in-bloodshed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/25\/10-hour-hostage-drama-ends-in-bloodshed\/","title":{"rendered":"10-hour hostage drama ends in bloodshed"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16850\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16850\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/shutterstock_130395467.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16850\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/shutterstock_130395467.jpg\" alt=\"Shutterstock photo\" width=\"500\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/shutterstock_130395467.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/shutterstock_130395467-300x255.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16850\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shutterstock photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines \u2013 A ten-hour hostage drama which unfolded in the city of San Juan ended in bloodshed yesterday, as a security guard shot his captive dead before turning the gun on himself.<\/p>\n<p>Police identified the hostage-taker as Charlimaine Aton, 35, a security guard. His victim, taken hostage late Monday night, was named as lawyer Solomon Condonuevo, 67.<\/p>\n<p>The killing took place at approximately 7:35 a.m. of Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Aton took Condonuevo hostage in a building along N. Domingo Avenue in Balonbato District in San Juan City at around 9 p.m. Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Police reported that a relative seemed able to coax Aton to release Condonuevo and surrender, but that the security guard suddenly shot the lawyer in the head after seeing several people around the building.<\/p>\n<p>Aton then turned the gun on himself as a team of policemen entered the building.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Inspector Melchor Rosales, San Juan City police&#8217;s deputy chief, said it was difficult to negotiate with Aton, and pointed out that Aton even demanded a meeting with US President Barack Obama and President Benigno Aquino III.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Philippines \u2013 A ten-hour hostage drama which unfolded in the city of San Juan ended in bloodshed yesterday, as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":16850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[5903,2649],"class_list":["post-16843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","tag-hostage-drama","tag-killing","mauthors-angie-duarte","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}