Man faces raps for beheading neighbor in Agusan del Sur

COTABATO CITY — Police investigators have filed criminal charges against a detained 48-year-old man who killed and beheaded a woman with a machete after their heated altercation last Tuesday in Barangay Canayugan in Bayugan City, Agusan del Sur.

In separate reports on Thursday, the Bayugan City Police Office and the Agusan del Sur Provincial Police Office said that the 48-year-old Mario Fortun, who had confessed to investigators and reporters having killed Rosalina Abing, 60, is now awaiting prosecution.

According to barangay officials in Canayugan, Fortun, known for being bully whenever drunk, first hacked Abing dead and cut her neck with a long, sharp machete right in her store after she insulted and called him “thief” when he asked her to dispose properly the heap of garbage and thorny plants along a pathway beside her store.

Fortun had told reporters that instead of giving in to his request, Abing forced her out of her yard and shouted at him invectives.

Witnesses said Fortun went home, took a machete, returned to Abing’s store and killed and beheaded her immediately and took her head to another house where his friends were drinking wine together.

Neighbors of Fortun and barangay officials said he even showed his friends the decapitated head of Abing and told them that he had “punished” her for declining his request and talking to him in a manner he did not deserve.

Fortun was immediately arrested and detained by responding policemen and barangay tanods, now clamped down at a detention facility of the Bayugan CPO.