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MANILA, Philippines — The wife of a police lieutenant colonel who fatally shot then dismembered the body of a fellow policeman in front of her in Taguig City was left traumatized, which left her unable to speak.

Brig. Gen. Jean Fajardo, PNP spokesperson, bared such details surrounding the death of police executive master sergeant Emmanuel De Asis, who was allegedly shot by the police officer identified as Roderick Pascua in the latter’s apartment at the Married Non-Officers’ Quarter in the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) headquarters at Camp Bagong Diwa last Nov. 28.

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“The husband instructed his wife to get a hacksaw and she was present at the time of the killing at (and) during the mutilation,” Fajardo said in a press briefing.

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After this, Pascua then allegedly placed the remains in a rice bag and buried them within the grounds of his ancestral home in Baguio City.

Investigators requested the suspect and his attorney to accompany them to the site on the ancestral house’s compound to exhume the body on Wednesday, Dec. 4.

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All of the testimony so far came from the husband, while his wife remains mum, according to Fajardo.

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“The girl has slight trauma, she can’t talk to anyone,”  she said in Filipino. “The wife couldn’t still talk, like more of a shocked and traumatized,” Fajardo added.

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Initially, police reports said that Pascua allegedly shot De Asis  after supposedly discovering him in “intimate relations” with the lieutenant’s wife.

But Fajardo noted that it appears “really premeditated in terms of an attempt to hide” the crime.

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Fajardo said Pascua and his wife are now in restrictive custody.

Meanwhile, NCRPO acting regional director Police Brig. Gen. Anthony Aberin on Monday said Taguig City Police Station already forwarded murder complaints to the Department of Justice on Friday.

Aberin, in a statement, said he instructed concerned units to ensure the filing of airtight criminal and administrative cases against them.

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“The pieces of evidence are overwhelmingswerteplay,” Aberin said.

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