The Filipino-Japanese son of a barangay council member in Lapu-Lapu City was found dead in his hotel room in uptown Cebu City past 11 p.m. last Tuesday.
Hidezo Andong Hayashi, 36, was found with a gunshot wound on the chin. The bullet exited at the top of the head.
SPO2 Wetzel Berry said a .45 caliber pistol was recovered from the man’s left hand. A spent shell and slug of a .45 caliber pistol were recovered from the room.
A plastic pack containing white crystalline substance was found in the lavatory of the room.
“We do not want to speculate. We have sent the sachet to the PNP crime laboratory for examination,” said Berry.
The victim was the son of Josie Hayashi, a council member in Barangay Punta Engaño, Lapu-Lapu City.
Hidezo checked in at Q5 Hotel on General Maxilom Avenue last Sunday afternoon. He arrived aboard a gray Toyota Fortuner (JYV-237) and stayed in the hotel for four days, said Gonzalo Otabento, security guard of Q5.
The man was last seen alive ordering a bottle of water around 7 p.m. last Tuesday.
Maricris Tubos Sabredo said she was about to clean a room adjacent to the one where Hidezo stayed when she found a trail of blood.
Sabredo sought help from the hotel’s guard and later found the man bloodied.
Hidezo had been dead by the time the paramedics from the Emergency Rescue Unit Foundation arrived.
The man’s mother Josie told police that her son and father argued last Sunday. The argument had something to do with their spa business.
Hidezo left after the argument. He never returned. The father left for Japan last Sunday.