Julier wants prime suspect in dad’s slay captured alive
SAN CARLOS CITY—Mayor Julier Resuello wishes that the hitman, who shot his father, the late Mayor Julian Resuello, would be arrested alive and well.
“It’s better if he’s alive because a dead man tells no tale,” Resuello said in a chat with newsmen at his office shortly after delivering his State of the City Address (SOCA) before the city council on Monday.
He said the arrest of the gunman could lead to the mastermind.
The younger Resuello often and openly speaks about their family’s bitterness over the slow progress of the investigation on the assassination of his father more than 16 months ago.
“What we are seeking is total justice. We are not after the life of that person who killed our father,” said Julier, pointing out that the principal suspect, Cesar de Guzman, alias Cabesa, is still at-large and scot-free.
The late Mayor Resuello, who was running for vice mayor then in tandem with his son Julier, who was then vice mayor, was shot and mortally wounded during an attack inside the San Carlos City auditorium on the night of April 28, 2007, about two weeks before the election.
He died two days later at the St. Luke’s Hospital in Manila where he was airlifted.
In an interview, Julier said he has not heard of any new development about the manhunt for de Guzman by elements of the Task Force Resuello.
“This year, I have not received any information as to the progress of the investigation of the case, and on whether the probe is still continuing,” the young mayor told newsmen.
Apparently, there were two gunmen in the slaying, De Guzman and one Angelito Soriano of Malasiqui, who was arrested a few days after the incident in a local hospital where he was recuperating for his wound in the leg.
Soriano has been in detention after he was charged for double murder and multiple frustrated murders before the Regional Trial Court in San Carlos City.
A nationwide manhunt for De Guzman by members of Task Force Resuello formed by Police Provincial Director Isagani Nerez on order of then Provincial Director Chief Superintendent Leopoldo Bataoil has so far failed.
Julier was elected mayor of the town while his younger brother Joseres, a last-minute replacement of their dead father, won as vice mayor.
Today, brother-tandem are evidently out to achieve more than what their late father did in his more than eight years in office. —LM
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