According to police, they initially received a report that the victim had been accidentally struck by an object, but the investigation found that someone had thrown a piece of scrap metal from a building under construction.
On Sunday, a woman died after being hit on the head by a piece of metal thrown from a construction site in Barangay Balingasa, Quezon City.
The victim was identified as Analyn Sugano-ob. She suffered a severe head injury and was already dead when she arrived at the hospital.
According to the Quezon City Police District (QCPD), the initial report was that the victim had been accidentally hit by a piece of metal. However, the investigation found that someone had thrown it from a building under construction at the Creekside Riverview Market.
"The first report was that a woman had been hit on the head by a metal object that fell on her. When we investigated, it turned out this wasn't just an ordinary accident, but that someone up above had thrown the metal down," said PLT Jamaica Huatón, head of the investigation team at the QCPD Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit (CIDU).
The victim's husband, Mario Cronico, said the incident happened when his wife went to get the food she had been cooking.
He said he saw with his own eyes the piece of metal fly in and hit his wife on the head.
When he tried to confront the suspect, he saw the suspect throw a piece of metal once more, but he couldn't get to him right away because there was a fence on top of the wall.
The suspect reportedly ran away after seeing the victim collapse.
Sugano-ob was taken to the hospital but could not be saved.
A citizen chased down and caught the suspect, who was then handed over to the police.
The suspect admitted what happened and asked the family for forgiveness. However, he claimed it was not intentional.
"I'm sorry if that's what happened. But that wasn't what I meant to do. It was an accident," the suspect said.
Even so, the victim's husband is demanding justice. He said his wife left behind a family that loved her.
"He took my wife's life. There are people she left behind. We were together for a long time, and she was such a good person. She was so good. We love her so much. Please, bring us justice," said Cronico.
The suspect is currently in the custody of QCPD-CIDU and has previously been involved in a theft case.
The suspect will now be charged with homicide.
He said it was an accident, but he threw it, right? What an idiot.
Damn it, you need some common sense, old man. What did you think would happen throwing scrap metal down? If you'd worked construction for a long time, you'd know you can't do that. What an idiot.
The contractor of the building under construction is also responsible, since they violated basic safety standards and requirements.
At my old job, a subcontractor just dumped stuff where materials were stored. A payloader ran over leftover cut angle bars and the tire blew out. No matter how much you try to stop them, people who don't care just never care.
This is absolutely absurd. The victim was just living an ordinary life and died in an instant. Isn't this basically murder?
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