Fed up with nagging mother, security guard kills 3

A mother’s tart tongue instead of kind love, neighborhood gossip and shabu all conspired to drive a rattled 32-year-old security guard to shoot dead a fellow guard in Rodriguez, Rizal and, some two hours later, a husband-and-wife neighbor yesterday morning in Caloocan City.

Senior Superintendent Leo Garra, city police chief, identified the suspect as Ernesto Taylor Jr. 22, a blue guard employed by the Nazareth Security Agency and resident of 29 Camias street, Cruz Compound, Sta. Quiteria, Caloocan City.

Taylor was arrested for killing Carlos Montaño Sr. 67, his wife Juarlita, 57, and the wounding of their son Darwin, 26, as they were watching an early morning TV show at around past 7 a.m. in their home in Sta. Quiteria.

Inspector Romeo Onte, Station Investigation Branch (SIB) chief said operatives from the Rodriguez police came to inform them that the latter were also after Taylor who earlier had killed an unidentified colleague at a trucking firm in Rodriguez, Rizal where he worked the night-shift.

Records showed Taylor shot the victim couple at around 5:45 a.m. yesterday. Dr. Filemon Porciuncula, Scene of the Crime Operations (SOCO) medico-legal officer said Carlos succumbed to two gunshot wounds in the head while his wife died from a gunshot wound in the left eye and chest. Darwin escaped with a nape wound by scrambling away after the first shot and was taken to the Quezon City General Hospital for treatment.

"I couldn’t take it anymore," Taylor said when asked why he did it. Taylor, in his cell, blamed his mother for nagging him about his using drugs.

"Bukambibig na ng nanay ko na dapat mamatay na ako. Magbaril na lang daw ako sa ulo," he told The STAR. Taylor admitted using shabu, but said he is not a habitual user, only twice a month, and added he can control himself.

He said he used drugs because of the constant reminder that he is of no consequence.

"Walang halaga sa kanila ang mga ginagawa ko," said the eldest of five siblings who said he previously finished his six-month contract as a service crew of a hamburger restaurant in Quezon City before becoming a security guard one and a half years ago.

He said he needed love and recognition which his own family denied him. The malicious talk, he blamed on the couple.

"Pinatay ko yung mag-asawa dahil sa kanilang paninirang-puri. Asawa ko daw ang nanay ko. Manyak daw ako. Tsismis nila sa akin," he told The STAR.

"Nagsisisi ako. Di ko gusto ang nangyari. Aantayin ko na lang kung kelan ako bibitayin," the suspect said.

Taylor told The STAR he was supposed to be on duty Wednesday night, but failed to make it due to the bad weather. He said he used drugs and at 3 a.m. set out for Rodriguez where he worked the 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. shift. He arrived at past four, got his service firearm, a shotgun, and demanded from his colleague whom he only called "partner" to lend him his revolver.

"Partner" refused so he aimed his shotgun and fired a round fatally hitting the guard in the chest. He soon left taking the guard’s .38 and proceeded home. He went straight to the Montanos who were then watching TV at past 7 a.m.

He fired, hitting the old man in the forehead and fired again as his target fell forward. He next turned on the wife and the son, who luckily escaped death by running away at the first shot.

He said, he then unloaded his shotgun and put the ammo in his pocket before he left the scene leaving the weapons behind. Still in a daze, he then walked aimlessly past the police station nearby, but surrendered peacefully when police called out to him. — With Pete Laude