IN COLD BLOOD. Dodong Barlomcato could only stand and look at the lifeless body of his brother Godofredo, who was stabbed by his drinking buddy in a videoke bar along Sasa Highway on Wednesday night. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)
by MEDEL V. HERNANI
Davao Today
Sasa, Davao City – Two friends drinking in a videoke bar along Sasa ended up with one of them stabbed dead by his friend on Wednesday night.
Godofredo Barlomcato, around 40 years old and a worker at the Sulpicio Lines container yard, was found dead in a waiting shed outside of the bar with a stab wound below his armpit.
Witnesses at the bar identified to Davao Today the murder suspect as one alias Dioncat, a pig butcher and resident of Purok 10, Doña Salud.
The altercation happened around eight in the evening, when Dioncat, already asleep from too much drink was slapped twice by Barlomcato saying “atik-atik patulog-tulog (you’re faking your sleep).”
Dioncat stirred and elbowed Barlomcato, who retaliated by smashing a bottle on Dioncat.
After this, Dioncat pulled out his butcher’s knife and stabbed Barlomcatobelow his right armpit, which made Barlomcato staggered out of the bar with the knife in his body.
Barlomcato ran to a waiting shed and managed to pull out the knife in his armpit, but died bathing in his pool of blood.
Police are now searching for the suspect. (Medel V. Hernani, davaotoday.com)
