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By Jerold Tagbo Eagle News Service One of the primary suspects in the killing of Horacio Castillo III is now out of the country. Based on records of the Bureau of Immigration, one Ralph Caballes Trangia, born on November 10, 1995, boarded an Eva Air plane with flight number BR262 toward Taipei on Sept. 19, a day after the Department of Justice issued an Immigration Lookout Bulletin against 16 members of the Aegis Juris Fraternity. […]
(Eagle News) — The University of Sto. Tomas Faculty of Civil Law dean on Wednesday announced that the preventive suspension on Aegis Juris fraternity members had been lifted. Nilo Divina made the announcement after police criticized his directive barring the fraternity members from entering the UST campus and from attending classes. The police argued this only made it difficult for investigators to locate the fraternity members. In a radio interview, Divina, a prominent member of […]
(Eagle News) — The Senate is set to investigate the death of law student Horacio Castillo III, who was believed killed in hazing rites held by the Aegis Juris fraternity based in the University of Sto. Tomas. Senator Panfilo Lacson, head of the Senate public order committee, set the first hearing of the inquiry on Monday, September 25. The justice committee headed by Senator Richard Gordon has been designated as secondary panel. Earlier, it was […]
(Eagle News) — Several members of the Aegis Juris fraternity believed responsible for the death of University of Sto. Tomas law student Horacio Castillo III have been placed under the Bureau of Immigration’s watchlist. The move to place Arvin R. Balag, Mhin Wei Chan, Marc Anthony Ventura, Axel Mundo Hipe, Oliver John Audrey Onofre, Joshua Joriel Macabali, Jason Adolfo Robiños, Ralph Trangia, Ranie Rafael Santiago, Danielle Hans Mattew Rodrigo, Carl Mattew Villanueva, Aeron Salientes, Marcelino […]
(Eagle News) — The University of Sto. Tomas student who claimed to have found the lifeless body of hazing victim Horacio Castillo III is now considered a “primary suspect” in his death. In a press conference, Chief Supt. Joel Coronel, Manila Police District director, said this was after John Paul Solano was found to have “deliberately” given “false information” to mislead investigators in the case. He said he believed this was part of his and […]
(Eagle News) — It was Horacio Castillo IiI himself who booked the Uber vehicle that took his things to his house in Makati minutes before he died. This is according to the Uber driver himself who drove the vehicle and surfaced at the Manila Police District headquarters early Wednesday to clear his name. In an interview with reporters, the driver, who refused to be identified, said Castillo booked the vehicle on Saturday afternoon. He said […]
(Eagle News) — The medical technologist who supposedly found Horacio Castillo III’s body on a street in Manila is now considered a “person of interest” by police, after officials of the barangay where he claimed to have found the University of Sto. Tomas law student’s body denied a body had indeed been found there. Supt. Erwin Margarejo, Manila Police District spokesperson, said it was officials themselves of Barangay 133 who issued a statement disputing John […]
(Eagle News) – Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II has ordered the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to probe the death of 22-year old University of the Sto. Tomas (UST) law freshman Horacio Tomas Castillo III during a “welcome rites” of the Aegis Juris fraternity. Aguirre, an alumnus of San Beda’s Lex Talionis Fraternitas, said that “deaths and physical injuries due to hazing have no place in a civilized society.” “The loss of a life […]
(Eagle News) – All officers and members of the Aegis Juris fraternity had been preventively suspended by the University of Sto. Tomas Faculty of Civil Law which barred their entry to the UST campus. This was following the death of a 22-year old freshman law student Horacio Tomas “Atio” Castillo III in a reported hazing incident involving the fraternity. The preventive suspension was effective September 18, 2017 according to Memorandum Order No. 2017-Sept-18-01 posted […]
MANILA, Sept. 1 (PNA) — Malacanang has issued a memorandum circular for the creation of an interagency task force that will step up government’s response to fraternity-related violence and strengthen the implementation of the Anti-Hazing Law. “President Aquino shares the concern of many parents and educators over the violations of the Anti-Hazing Law,” said Executive Secretary Paquito N. Ochoa Jr., who signed Memorandum Circular 68 on August 28. Ochoa said the task force seeks to […]
The public was shocked when a new incident of fraternity-related violence resulted in the death of a college student, Guillo Servando. Servando died last June 28 with bruises and wounds all over his body due to strong blows given in a hazing by his supposed to be brothers in the Tau Gamma Phi fraternity. In a CCTV footage, Servando was seen while he was being pulled away by fraternity members in a hallway while dying. […]
A survivor of the hazing incident identified the ten suspects who were involved in the death of one of the initiates.
