{"id":168778,"date":"2018-07-02T05:21:38","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T09:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=168778"},"modified":"2018-07-02T05:21:38","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T09:21:38","slug":"4-suspects-in-killing-of-nueva-ecija-priest-nabbed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/07\/02\/4-suspects-in-killing-of-nueva-ecija-priest-nabbed\/","title":{"rendered":"4 suspects in killing of Nueva Ecija priest nabbed"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_168780\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-168780\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Suspects-in-Fr.-Nilo-murder-case-July-2_5b39cf8771f9a4_57979045.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-168780\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Suspects-in-Fr.-Nilo-murder-case-July-2_5b39cf8771f9a4_57979045.jpg\" alt=\"Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Oscar Albayalde has announced the arrest of four individuals in the killing of Fr. Richmond Nilo in Nueva Ecija last month. (Photo courtesy: Leo Sarne, Radyo Pilipinas via PNA)\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Suspects-in-Fr.-Nilo-murder-case-July-2_5b39cf8771f9a4_57979045.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Suspects-in-Fr.-Nilo-murder-case-July-2_5b39cf8771f9a4_57979045-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-168780\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Oscar Albayalde has announced the arrest of four individuals in the killing of Fr. Richmond Nilo in Nueva Ecija last month. (Photo courtesy: Leo Sarne, Radyo Pilipinas via PNA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Oscar Albayalde has announced the arrest of four individuals in the killing of Fr. Richmond Nilo in Nueva Ecija last month.<\/p>\n<p>In a press briefing in Camp Crame Monday, Albayalde showed a video footage of suspect Omar Mallari a.k.a. &#8220;Bulik&#8221; admitting to the killing in exchange for a payment.<\/p>\n<p>According to the PNP, Omar had been recruited by Rolando Garcia who in turn was asked by primary suspect Manuel Torres to scout for a gun-for-hire to kill the priest. Aside from Garcia, a certain Mario Torres also surrendered to policemen.<\/p>\n<p>As for the motive of the crime, the police said Manuel Torres bore a grudge against Fr. Nilo after the victim accused his nephew, a seminarian, of abusing three altar boys. The altar boys later recanted their statement against Torres&#8217; nephew.<\/p>\n<p>An initial suspect, Adel Milan, who was initially identified by a witness was freed last Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Albayalde also showed and noted the similarities in the facial features in photos of Milan, Omar and the cartographic sketch of a then unknown suspect before the arrests were made.<\/p>\n<p>Mallari&#8217;s arrest also came after police recovered vehicle registration papers in his name covering the engine block of a Nissan Sentra which had been burnt and sold for scrap shortly after the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Persons using the vehicle were seen surveilling the priest before the killing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Oscar Albayalde has announced the arrest of four individuals in the killing &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":168780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[50164,18681],"class_list":["post-168778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","tag-director-general-oscar-albayalde","tag-philippine-national-police-pnp","mauthors-benjamin-pulta","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168778","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}