PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, VS. ASSEMBLYMAN ARTURO F. PACIFICADOR (AT LARGE), SGT. DOMINGO DALMACIO, SGT. ENRICO CABAÑERO, C2C REYNALDO ALIPALA, PFC VICENTE VEGAFRIA, P/CPL. HECTOR FULLON, AND PAT/ LORENZO MINGOTE, ACCUSED.

Ruling

WHEREFORE, in view of the foregoing premises, the Court finds accused Domingo Dalmacio, Enrico Cabañero, Reynaldo Alipala, Vicente Vegafria, Hector Fullon, and Lorenzo Mingot guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of multiple murder frustrated murder and hereby rendered judgment as follows: For Multiple Murder: Accused are hereby sentenced each to suffer seven (7) reclusion perpetua and to indemnify the heirs of the victims, jointly and solidarily, the following amounts: a) 350,000.00 for the death of the seven (7) victims; b) 37,000.00 as actual damages for victim Clemente Samulde; c) P20,000.00 as actual damages for victim Rhium Sanchez; d) P39,000.00 as actual damages for victim Plaridel Sanchez IV; e) P35,000,00 as actual damages for victim Mamerto Zaldivar, Jr.; f) P22,5 10.00 as actual damages for victim Armelito Tamboong; and g) P70,000.00 for victim Aldrick Sanchez. For Frustrated Murder: Applying the Indeterminate Sentence Law and there being no mitigating circumstance to offset an aggravating circumstance, accused are hereby sentenced each to suffer an indeterminate prison term ranging from nine (9) years, four (4) months and one 91) day of prision mayor, as minimum, to seventeen (17) years, four (4) months and one (1) day of reclusion temporal, as maximum, and to indemnify, jointly and solidarily, the offended party in the amount of P60,000.00 for medicines and hospitalization. In the service of the sentence, unless otherwise disqualified pursuant to the provisions of Article 29 of the Revised Penal Code, as amended, accused are to be credited with all the preventive imprisonment they underwent. SO ORDERED.