Ferdinand Buhion
August 13, 2007
Sitio Macanhan, Barangay Carmen, Philippines

Sun Star
(Philippines)
August 15, 2007

Robbers kill cabbie

By Joey Nacalaban

Victim stabbed to death; suspects abandon taxi

WHEN he took supper with his family at a fastfood outlet at past 
11:00 p.m. last Monday, 27-year old taxi driver Ferdinand 
Buhion and his wife never knew it would be the last meal they 
would share together.

"Wala ko kahibalo kadto naman diay ang katapusan namong 
panihapon uban sa among mga anak," a tearful Jennifer, 
Ferdinand's widow, told media at a local funeral parlor Tuesday 
morning. (I did not know it would be our last supper with out 
children.)

Ferdinand was found by residents bleeding and barely breathing 
after sustaining six stab wounds from suspected robbers in Sitio 
Macanhan, Barangay Carmen at past 1:00 a.m. Tuesday.

Buhion, a resident of 6th division, Patag, sustained five stab 
wounds in the chest and one on his stomach.

He was dumped along the road and found by residents in 
Carmen.

One of the residents, who refused to be identified, told police she 
was watching television when she heard a commotion outside 
her house.

She said she peeped through the window and noticed a taxi with 
three occupants inside.

"Pag tan-aw nako tulo man ka tawo ug ang duha ilang 
gitabangan og layog ang drayber (I saw that there were three 
men and two of them took turns beating up the driver)," she said.

Later, she noticed that one of the suspects alighted from the 
vehicle and dragged the victim out. She then saw the car 
speeding away from the area.

Another witness, a man, also told authorities he was inside his 
home when he heard the mumbling of a man outside.

He said when he went outside to check he saw a white taxi with 
three persons inside. He said he suspected that something wrong 
was going on.

"Naghapa-hapa nalang ko sa among silong kay nahadlok ko 
basin mga armado silag pusil (I hid under our house because I 
feared that they may be armed with guns)," he said.

Later, he saw the taxi leaving the place with one of the suspects 
already the one behind the wheel.

"I rode on my bike and chased after them but they were far 
ahead," he said in Visayan.

Residents in the area tried to help the victim, who was at that 
time still alive but their efforts proved futile.

At 3:30 a.m., Bulua police found the taxi driven by Buhion 
abandoned at Zone 2, Bulua. The vehicle nearly ran out of fuel 
and the driver's earnings of that day had gone missing.

Jeniffer, the victim's wife, said she could not believe what 
happened to her husband.

The taxi owner named Orlando Mansano said Buhion was a 
good man and friendly to people. He said as far as he knew, the 
latter has no enemies or any grudge with fellow drivers.

A lot of taxi drivers were on hand at the funeral parlor to pay 
their respects to the victim's wife and family.

Authorities are still looking for another possible angle regarding 
the incident.

Scene of the Crime Operations (SOCO) said they had the taxi 
driven by one of Manzano's people away from the crime scene, 
though not without first fitting the driver with gloves and encasing 
the driver's seat in plastic foil to preserve the prints.

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Sun Star
(Philippines)
August 16, 2007

Police get cabbie killer's sketches

By Joey P. Nacalaban

CRIMINAL Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) 10 officials 
remain confident that the case of the murdered taxi driver will 
soon be resolved.

Authorities already managed to get cartographic sketches of the 
two attackers.

Senior Inspector Bernardo Mendoza, Criminal Investigation and 
Detection Group (CIDG) deputy chief, said his men managed to 
convince witnesses to come out in the open and identify the taxi 
driver's attackers.

Still, Mendoza said they are not ruling out the possibility that the 
two might be long gone from the city. He said they are closing 
out all exit points to prevent them from escaping.

During the incident, at least three persons declared they saw 
what happened inside the taxi driven by 27-year-old Ferdinand 
Buhion.

Buhion, residing at 6th division, Patag, Cagayan de Oro City, 
was found dead along the road of Sitio Macanhan, Carmen last 
August 13 at 1:45 a.m.

He sustained seven stab wounds in the different parts of his 
body.

Residents in the area tried to help the victim who was at that 
time still gasping for breath but to no avail.

Mendoza said the CIDG cartographer was able to draw the faces 
of the two attackers based on the description of witnesses.

Mendoza also said aside from the witnesses in Macanhan, his 
men also gathered information about what happened to the 
victim minutes before he died.

Mendoza said he is also considering a report that Buhion fetched 
a female singer from one of the city bars and took her to Zayas, 
Carmen before he was killed.

"When the woman got out, two men boarded the taxi and these 
men are believed to be the victim's assailants," Mendoza said in 
Visayan.

Mendoza said police at Bulua recovered the vehicle driven by 
Buhion in Zone 2 of the said barangay.

Inside the taxi they found a wallet, a mobile phone keypad, a hair 
strand, and cash amounting to P605.

Jennefer, the victim's wife said, she is willing to file appropriate 
charges against her husband's killers and hoped they would be 
arrested soon.

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Sun Star
(Philippines)
August 17, 2007

Authorities nab cabbie slay suspect in Oro (9:18 p.m.)

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY -- One of the suspects in the robbery and murder
of a taxi driver at past 1 a.m. last Tuesday was arrested by Criminal 
Investigation Detection Group (CIDG)-Northern Mindanao and city police 
operatives in a village in Cagayan de Oro City at 6 a.m. Friday.

CIDG officials identified the suspect as Jardin "Amay" Labadan,
supposedly a member of the notorious Batang Mindanao 29 gang.

Labadan was arrested at his home in Barangay Nazareth.

During the investigation at CIDG headquarters, some of the suspect's
friends said Labadan was at home at the time of the murder.

Taxi driver Ferdinand Buhion, a resident of 6th Division in Barangay
Patag, bled to death as a result of six stab wounds -- five in the 
chest, one in the stomach. 

He was found along a road in Sitio Macanhan, Barangay Carmen by 
residents who rushed him to a nearby hospital to no avail.

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