Couple from Bolonsiri stab, kill each other in own home

By JOEY NACALABAN
Correspondent .

WHAT started out as a night of what seemed to be merrymaking between a middle-aged couple ended up in tragedy Sunday night when the couple ended up stabbing each other dead.

Gina Perocho, 29, a daughter of the couple, recalled that earlier that evening her mother and father were in a drinking session at the sala of their house in Upper Bolonsiri, Barangay Camaman-an, this city.

“Maayo man ilang mga ginhawa. Katawakatawa pa gani silang duha. Then murag nangahubog na sila miuna pagsulod akong papa sa ilang kwarto,” Gina recalled.

She said that when her father went to their bedroom, her mother did not follow immediately.

Minutes later, Gina said she saw her mother talking to somebody over the phone.

Later that evening, Gina and her siblings would discover the bloodied bodies of their mother and father in the master’s bedroom with two kitchen knives found near their bodies. Apparently, they stabbed each other.

Gina identified the fatalities as Wilma Aguy, 47, and Jimmy Perocho, 56. She said her father was unemployed.

Gina said her mother and father were not legally married; Perocho had a wife prior to her mother. Perocho became a widower when his first wife died a while back.

She said her father had suspected her mother of having an illicit affair with a barber from Barangay Bulua.

There were times when her father would call her mother (who her father assumed to be at the house of the barber) through a cellphone asking her mother whether she would be home for the night, Gina recalled.

She said she knew her father was angry because of the supposed affair her mother had with the barber. Still, Gina could not believe the night had ended tragically. She and her siblings are still in shock.

The couple’s remains would be interred on Thursday.