By Jun Malig
Central Luzon Desk
Expatriates here want authorities to immediately arrest the suspect in the robbery and murder of three foreigners and six Filipinos over the last two weeks.
They want the immediate arrest of Mark Dizon, 28, a computer technician and a reflexologist, to give justice to his victims and prevent him from killing more expatriates and foreign retirees in the city.
Chief Inspector Luisito Tan, commander of the Angeles police’s Station 4 here, said a foreigner living in the city, who asked not to be identified, has offered P100,000 to people who could provide information that would lead to Dizon’s arrest.
“Foreigners in Angeles are very worried. They fear that more foreigners living here and in other places in the country will be victimized by the suspect unless he is caught,†Tan told the Philippine Daily Inquirer by telephone on Monday.
On Sunday, Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan echoed the city police’s statement that the three robbery-slay cases had been solved with the identification of the suspect.
Results of ballistic tests, police said, showed that the bullets that killed the nine victims came from the same 9-millimeter pistol.
Pamintuan also said Dizon’s relatives had informed the police and local officials that they were working for the suspect’s surrender.
Dizon is being hunted for allegedly robbing and killing American Albert Mitchell, 70, former commander of the Veterans of Foreign War Post 2485 here; his wife Janet, 53; and helpers Isabel Fajardo, 29; Marissa Prado, 29; and Yulberto Catli in Hensonville Court Subdivision in Barangay Malabanias here on July 22.
Dizon is also the suspect in the robbery and killing of Briton James Bolton Porter, 51, and his live-in partner Melissa Madarang, 22, in Sta. Maria Subdivision here on July 16, and the robbery and murder of Canadian Geoffrey Allan Bennun, 60, and live-in partner Abegail Helina, 20, at the Oasis Hotel and Villas in Clarkville Compound on July 12.
Guards stopped Dizon at the Hensonville Court gate as he was leaving the subdivision while carrying a backpack, a laptop bag and a laundry bag several minutes after the murder of the Mitchells and their helpers.
The suspect, however, was able to escape.
Police said a niece of Janet Mitchell could have been among the victims if she did not leave the house to go to a shopping mall in the Clark Freeport.
She helped the police and security guard Angelito Prado, brother of one of the victims, in identifying Dizon through the latter’s account in the social networking site Facebook.
Police said Dizon’s Facebook account had been erased on Sunday.
But Tan said he was able to photocopy Dizon’s Facebook profile photograph before the account was deactivated.
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