Hilario Herrera, a carpenter from Nueva Ecija province, grabbed the gun of one of his custodians and shot himself, according to Senior Supt. The investigation showed that he had fetched the girl from the San Mariano East Elementary School in Nueva Ecija. A local family took him in but he was later accused of molesting one of the family members. With no formal charges filed against him, he moved to Nueva Ecija, where another family gave him shelter. As to suspicions that Herrera was summarily executed inside Camp Crame, Dumlao said: “If we wanted him (Herrera) dead, he would have been disposed of while still in Palawan.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer July 26, 2017 21:11 UTC