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Police seek autopsy on 4 killed
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Posted on Feb 16 2006
The Department of Public Safety’s Criminal Investigation Bureau will ask the Attorney General’s Office to arrange for an autopsy on all four persons who died during a stabbing rampage in San Antonio.
Maj. Edward H. Manalili, CIB chief, told the Saipan Tribune yesterday that the autopsy would determine the cause of death of the three victims and also the suspect.
Manalili said CIB investigators are still working with Immigration agents to identify the four persons, who were described only as Asians. Neighbors in the area have said that the victims and the suspect were all Koreans.
The major said they have to notify the next of kin before releasing the identities of the dead persons.
He said investigators have yet to confirm the motive behind the killing.
Manalili said the traffic officer who shot dead the suspect reported for work yesterday.
“Our main concern is his [officer’s] well-being first, then we go from there,” he said. “He seems to be fine.”
Manalili still refused to identify the officer but sources said the officer is Police Officer 2 Victor Val Hocog.
The suspect reportedly stabbed dead two women and a man at a residence located behind the Seventh-Day Advestist School on Wednesday morning.
The suspect later died after Hocog, who responded to the house, shot him. Hocog himself sustained a stab wound and a laceration in the elbow and rib area after the suspect attacked him. The attack prompted him to shoot the suspect.
