Danilo Guades

Danilo Guades

Background information
Birth name	Danilo Guades
Occupation	Unemployed
Born	c. 1968
Killings
Date	June 2, 2007 2 a.m. – 3 a.m.
Location(s)	Calbayog City, Philippines
Killed	10
Injured	17
Weapon(s)	Bolo Club

Danilo "Danny" Guades was a Filipino spree killer who hacked to death 10 people with a bolo and injured 17 more on a drunk rampage through his neighbourhood in the barangay Gadgaran of Calbayog City on June 2, 2007.

Life

Danny Guades was jailed for seven years at the Caloocan City Jail for stabbing to death his elder brother Toto some time in the 1980s.
He had been married, but his wife died in December 2006 and he used to sleep at his cousin's house since then. He had a child, who was in grade four at the time of the murders.
Throughout the village Guades was known as a mentally imbalanced trouble-maker who was often drunk, sometimes waking two days, before running to the mangroves to sleep there on the ground for the following two days.
Apparently Guades had also told others that somebody is always chasing him.^[1]

Murders

39-year old Guades began his rampage at the home of his cousin Emily Guades Ponce. Entering her house at about 2 a.m. he attacked her husband Benjamin with a 22-inch long bolo knife, hitting him in the left shoulder, before turning against her sleeping children, killing her son Eric with a blow to his head and injuring her other son Benjie and her daughter Marylin with hits to their heads and arms. Emily Guades Ponce, though also injured at her head, managed to jump out of a window and escape.
Subsequently Danny Guades attacked the Jadulco family, living nearby, killing pregnant Gemma Jadulco and five of her children and leaving two others injured, before walking to the Conteras' home. There he killed Candido Conteras, injured his wife Maria and their daughter Jennelyn and mortally wounded their son Danilo. In the backyard of the house Guades attacked Carlito Layam, who was slightly injured at his right arm, but managed to fight off the attacker.
Afterwards Guades entered the house of Enis Lecis through the window and hit sleeping Eduardo and Enis Lecis in the head, killing Eduardo. At a wake for a member of the Ramada family, where Guades had spent some time drinking earlier,^[2] he cut Francisco Ramada's throat, hit Ernesto Ramada's neck and stabbed Armando Ramada into the left side of his body. Michael Caber and Myra Manlapid were also injured, before people attending the wake managed to fight Guades off. Guades fled to a road junction, where he attacked his final victims, Eddie and Jocelyn Gonzaga, who were on board of a motorcycle. Guades assaulted them with the bolo and a club, hitting Eddie Gonzaga at the arm, jaw and forehead and his wife at her left elbow, before the driver of the motorcycle was able to escape.^[1]
Guades finally surrendered himself to Fortunato Burbana, a villager, at about 3 a.m., according to himself out of fear police might chase and kill him. Burbana then turned him over to police, ending Guades' one hour long rampage. At the police station Guades denied killing anyone but his brother many years ago. He was charged with multiple murder.^[2][3]

Victims

Deaths

Gemma Jadulco, 32. who was eight months pregnant Jennelyn Jadulco, 12, daughter of Gemma Jadulco Jinggoy Jadulco, 8, son of Gemma Jadulco Renato Jadulco, 3, son of Gemma Jadulco Nadine Jadulco, 2, daughter of Gemma Jadulco

Christine Jadulco, 1, daughter of Gemma Jadulco Candido Conteras, 46 Danilo Conteras, 12, son of Candido & Maria Conteras Eric Benjamin Ponce, 7, son of Benjamin & Emily Ponce Eduardo Lecis, 35

Injured

Emily Guades Ponce, 27, a cousin of Danny Guades Benjamin Ponce, 42, husband of Emily Guades Ponce Benjie Ponce, 5, son of Benjamin & Emily Ponce Marilyn Ponce, 3, daughter of Benjamin & Emily Ponce Francisco Ramada, 56 Ernesto Ramada, 45 Armando Ramada, 35 Jocelyn Jadulco, 9, daughter of Gemma Jadulco Joan Jadulco, 4, daughter of Gemma Jadulco

Maria Conteras, 37, wife of Candido Conteras Jennelyn Conteras, 16, daughter of Candido & Maria Conteras Eddie Gonzaga Jocelyn Gonzaga Enis Lecis, 54 Michael Caber, 31 Myra Manlapid, 24 Carlito Layam, 46

Motive

It was said that Guades apparently had a quarrel with Gemma Jadulco's husband, Totoy, before the rampage, when both were attending the wake.^[2]
Police later disclosed that Guades told them he committed the crime to strengthen his amulet, a piece of paper with Latin words on it.^[4][5]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Man runs amuck with a bolo, kills 9, hurts 18, Samar News (June 4, 2007)
2. ^ ^{a b c} Rampaging man kills 9 in Samar, Sun.Star (June 3, 2007)
3. ^ 10 killed, 16 hurt as man runs amok, The Bohol Chronicle (June 3, 2007)
4. ^ Raps filed vs Calbayog massacre suspect, GMA News (June 4, 2007)
5. ^ Man kills 10 people, hurts 16 other persons in Samar (June 2, 2007)

External links

• Killing Rampage In Calbayog Samar, Tingog.com (June 3, 2007)
• Eight killed as amok rampages in Samar, The Manila Times (June 3, 2007)
• Deranged man kills 10, hurts 16 in Samar village, Philippine Headline News (June 3, 2007)
• Jobless man runs amuck, kills 10 in Samar, Philippine Daily Inquirer (June 3, 2007)
• 10 killed, 16 wounded as man runs amok in Samar, Philippine Daily Inquirer (June 2, 2007)
• Drunk man kills 10 in Philippines, Reuters (June 3, 2007)
• Killing spree in Calbayog a wake-up call, say top cops, Leyte Samar Daily Express
• Multiple murder charges filed vs amok, Philippine Information Agency (June 5, 2007)

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Name	Guades, Danilo
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