A21-gun salute awaits PO1 Mae Sasing as she will be laid to rest today.
Chief Insp. Mark Gifter Sucalit, head of the City Intelligence Branch of the Lapu-Lapu City Police Office, said they will send a team to pay the tribute to Sasing, who last served as a member of the city police’s Public Safety Company.
The remains of the slain policewoman will be brought from her home in Barangay Jugan in Consolacion, where her wake has been held, to Liloan town for the 1 p.m. Requiem Mass at the San Roque Parish in Barangay Yati of the town, before Sasing’s body will be buried at the nearby Manila Memorial Gardens.
Sasing, 31, was driving her motorcycle on her way home to Consolacion town last October 31 when she was repeatedly shot by two assailants riding in tandem on another motorcycle. She was brought to the nearest hospital, but she was already dead by the time she got there.
Her former boyfriend Felix Taytayan was arrested three days later after witnesses pointed at him as the same person who shot the policewoman.
Police authorities have described Sasing’s killing as a crime of passion, saying they have found evidences to indicate that Taytayan had been attempting to rekindle his relationship with Sasing but was spurned by the policewoman.
Sasing, who had a seven-year-old daughter, was supposed to marry her live-in partner and the father of her child this December, according to members of her family.
Taytayan, a marine apprentice, has denied the allegations, with some of his coworkers in a cargo vessel that he worked for insisting that he was with them before, during and after Sasing was shot dead past 7 p.m. of October 31.
He earlier opted to undergo a preliminary investigation at the Mandaue City Prosecutor’s Office to allow him to submit a counter-affidavit and refute the allegations against him.
Taytayan, however, changed his mind and chose to waive his right to a preliminary investigation.
Finding sufficient grounds to indict Taytayan, Prosecutor Henry Pascua recommended the filing of charges against the accused at the Regional Trial Court.
Taytayan was committed to the Mandaue City Jail last Friday.
Police continue to look for the driver of the motorcycle.
“We will expand our search to other provinces where Taytayan’s companion might have been hiding,” said Supt. Bernouli Abalos, chief of the City Intelligence Branch of the Mandaue City Police Office.
Chief Insp. Michael Angelo Beltran, chief of Police Station 3 in Mandaue City, said only Rudy Lim, the owner of the shipping company where Taytayan served as an apprentice, visited him while he was still detained in the station’s stockade.
No lawyer has visited him, he said.
Taytayan earlier revealed that he was promised by Lim of his support.
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