Neca Denise Lagria, 22, was brutally killed and dumped into the ocean after she bit the tongue of a jeepney driver who forcefully kissed her. | Contributed Images
CEBU CITY, Philippines – Mr. Lagria* watched as his youngest daughter, Neca Denise Lagria, rode a jeepney that may take her to work round 3 a.m. final Tuesday, Nov. 19.
Neca Denise, 22, labored as a cashier in Mandaue Metropolis. However she needed to get up earlier than daybreak as a result of her household lived in Brgy. Yati, Liloan, which is a city away from Mandaue Metropolis.
However unbeknownst to Mr. Lagria, that may be the final time he would see his daughter alive.
On the identical day, Neca Denise was discovered useless, her physique dumped alongside the seawall in South Street Properties (SRP) in Cebu Metropolis, just a few kilometers south of her office in Mandaue Metropolis.
At first, questions and mysteries swirling across the younger girl’s ugly dying gripped Cebu. However inside a span of 48 hours, police right here managed to arrest the suspect, and take into account it ‘case solved.’
Neca Denise died as a consequence of strangulation after she fought off the motive force who forcefully kissed her.
The suspect, recognized as Godufredo Quiloan Bropal, 35, was the identical driver of the jeep that was purported to take her to work.
Bropal, who remained underneath police custody, will face complaints for murder and theft. Police additionally stated he could also be charged for rape with murder or theft with murder.
As well as, the suspect had already been concerned in no less than eight crimes, together with costs for acts of lasciviousness, police stated.
What occurred?
Bropal admitted to killing the 22-year-old sufferer, in line with police.
The suspect advised authorities that he drove for some time till the one passenger left in his automobile was the younger girl.
Once they have been left alone, Bropal reportedly tried to take benefit and kissed the girl.
However Neca Denise, who obtained mad, fought towards Bropal and he or she bit off half of his tongue in the course of the assault.
Angered by this, Bropal then strangled her till she stopped respiratory. Throughout a press convention on Thursday, Nov. 21, he admitted that he strangled Neca Denise as a result of she bit off his tongue when he kissed her.
The suspect, Godufredo Quiloan Bropal, has admitted to killing Neca Denise Lagria after he tried to kiss her contained in the jeepney. Bropal has expressed feeling regretful for his actions and apologized to the sufferer’s household. | CDN Photograph/ Emmariel Ares
Bropal then modified his course to Cebu Metropolis and headed for the seawall in SRP the place he dragged the girl’s useless physique and dumped it into the water.
Whereas he admitted to discovering the girl fairly, Bropal denied having romantic emotions for Neca Denise. He added that it was not intention to kill the girl.
He additionally claimed that she wished to be dropped off removed from the restaurant the place she labored the place she deliberate to get one other trip.
Within the aftermath of the crime, Bropal returned the jeepney and went again to his hometown in San Remigio. He even made a cease Bogo District Hospital to get his tongue handled.
His alibi was that he was a sufferer of a theft.
CCTV
The police right here have been capable of monitor down Bropal with the assistance of surveillance footage and closed-circuit tv (CCTV) cameras.
Mambaling police chief Police Main Efren Diaz Jr. stated that they recovered CCTV footages, serving to them hint the automobile that was first talked about by witnesses.
By way of the movies, they discovered it was a public jeepney and that it traversed round SRP on the time of the incident, together with the particular spot the place Neca Denise’s physique was discovered.
By way of the comply with up investigation, they recognized and intercepted the jeepney in Consolacion city on Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 20.
The motive force, recognized as Jason Cullamat, was promptly arrested as he was additionally present in possession of suspected shabu.
Throughout the interrogation, Cullamat revealed that his uncle, Bropal, was the one that used his jeepney on Tuesday.
He reportedly rented it to Bropal, whereas he stayed in Barili city from Saturday till Wednesday.
With this data, police went to Bropal’s home in San Remigio and arrested him at round 1:00 a.m. on Thursday.
Responding officers needed to subdue Bropal who tried to run from them. In consequence, he sustained accidents on his face and toes.
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Bropal was taken into custody and police discovered the sufferer’s cell phone and footwear inside his home. In addition they seized a .38 revolver from the suspect’s possession.
With Cullamot being taken off the checklist of suspects, Bropal has been named as the first and sole suspect answerable for the sufferer’s dying.
Nevertheless, Cullamot will nonetheless be going through separate costs for the confiscated medicine. Police may also proceed probing whether or not he’s concerned within the crime or not.
Household, Help
In response to Bropal, he was out of his thoughts on the time and didn’t assume to admit what occurred to the authorities.
When confronted by Lagria’s household, he expressed his remorse and apologized for killing the sufferer.
The arrested suspect was launched from jail solely lately, in line with Diaz.
Bropal was allegedly beforehand concerned in eight different crimes, which included a grievance for acts of lasciviousness.
He additionally admitted to being a former drug consumer. However he insisted that he was not underneath the affect of unlawful medicine or alcohol in the course of the incident.
As of this writing, Bropal is detained on the custodial facility of the Mambaling Police Station.
Cebu Metropolis Police Workplace (CCPO) director Police Colonel Antonietto Cañete acknowledged that they’re probing which costs they are going to be submitting towards the suspect.
He revealed that primarily based on the outcomes of the examination of the sufferer’s cadaver, the fees would both be rape with murder, murder and theft, or theft with murder.
Police may also be ready on the outcomes of the post-mortem examination on Lagria’s physique and the testing of the blood discovered on the jeepney the place she was killed.
Cebu Metropolis Mayor Raymond Alvin Garcia, who additionally attended the press convention on Thursday, counseled the Mambaling police for fixing the case in just some days.
Garcia expressed his condolences and personally handed over monetary help to the bereaved household.
*CDN Digital has opted to not reveal the primary names of Neca Denise’s fast relations to respect their privateness and time for grieving.
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