By Ven Rebo Arigo
published by The Bohol Standard newspaper
A Boholana and her American husband died of what police suspected to be a murder-suicide inside their house near Lawrenceville in Georgia, USA.
Gwinnett Country police initially ruled that Tita Lacea Cayme-Hall could have likely been murdered by her husband, Charles, before he killed himself in a suicide last Tuesday.
The husband, 57, and his wife, 50, were facing divorce, according to an Atlanta Journals-Constitution (ACJ) report. In that report, she was not however identified as a Boholana.
Their dead bodies were found inside their home on Carriage Way near Lawrenceville by one of their two young children, a 12-year-old son, early Tuesday morning.
The boy and his nine-year-old sister ran outside their home and crossed the street to the house of a neighbor who quickly called the police.
The Boholana had lacerations on her neck, according to the Gwinnett County Medical Examiner’s Office, while her husband sustained gunshot wounds.
Authorities there ruled that the husband killed his Boholana wife, a native of Catigbian, by cutting her throat. He then also cut his and then shot himself dead, the police said.
It was not yet confirmed if the Catigbianon victim of the gruesome murder half a planet from home was a close relative of Catigbian Mayor Roberto Salinas, whose middle name is also Lacea.
A check was made yesterday with her family or near relatives in Catigbian thru one of their neighbors, Archie Lungay, if they already knew the incident.
Lungay, a top staff of First District Rep. Rene Relampagos who happened to be in his hometown of Catigbian yesterday when contacted, went to the victim’s kins and texted back that they were informed of “something bad happening†to her.
The murder-suicide was confirmed by a sister of the victim who posted about the tragedy on-line social networking Facebook, a victim’s former classmate yesterday said.
The sister also posted links to sources of police informations of the tragedy for the victim’s other classmates and friends to access.
The victim’s classmate said they had long not heard of “Tita†until she posted school memoirs on Facebook “just starting last month.â€
The source, now a municipal government worker but who asked not to be named, said they became classmates when the Boholana studied and finished in 1980 her Bachelor of Science in Plant Protection with Specialization in Entomology at the then Visayas State College of Agriculture (VISCA) and now Visayas State University in Baybay, Leyte.
The source added that she had worked at the Xavier University in Cagayan de Oro City after graduation and then took up her master’s degree at the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok, Thailand.
Her school peers had since not heard of her---and her having settled in the US with her foreign husband and their children---until she lately posted their class fotos on Internet. On-line correspondence with former classmates then ensued.
Some three days to the tragedy, her classmates observed that she did no longer open her Facebook account or chat or respond to them.
It was not until her violent death was posted by her sister on the Internet social network that her classmates learned of her horrible fate. There have been no words yet if her remains will be flown here from the US.
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