Authorities have taken custody of three individuals — one adult and two juveniles — after a 16-year-old senior high school student was stabbed to death during a brawl at a pool hall in Quezon City on August 13.
Investigators said one of the minors is accused of delivering the fatal wounds. The teenage victim had gone to the venue along Quirino Highway in Barangay Pasong Putik Proper with several classmates around 6 p.m. when two people showed up and reportedly goaded the group into trading blows.
What started as a challenge to fight turned violent, according to police, when one of the assailants pulled out a bladed weapon and stabbed the student multiple times before running off with the others. The wounded teen was taken to Commonwealth Hospital, where a physician pronounced him dead. An initial check of the body found stab injuries to his left chest and left buttock.
The first break in the case came early on August 14. Officers from Pasong Putik Police Station 16 mounted a hot-pursuit operation and, at roughly 3 a.m., arrested an 18-year-old man using the alias “Rei” at his home in Barangay Greater Lagro.
According to police, “Rei” then named his two companions during questioning, pointing to one of the minors as the person who allegedly used the knife. That admission set off follow-up work by the Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit. One minor was tracked down at his residence around 11:30 p.m. that same day; the other was turned over to police by her own parents.
Per juvenile justice protocols, both minors are set to be endorsed to the Molave Youth Home in Quezon City for intervention and case handling appropriate to children in conflict with the law.
All three are expected to face homicide proceedings before the Quezon City Prosecutor’s Office.
