‘Suspicious-looking’ men looking for Carl Angelo’s friends —neighbors

Residents of Barangay San Andres in Cainta, Rizal, are on alert after two suspicious looking men were seen "sniffing around the area" on Tuesday night looking for the companions of Carl Angelo Arnaiz and Reynaldo de Guzman just before they went missing.

GMA News' Saleema Refran reported on Balitanghali on Friday that the men arrived on a motorcycle at past 10 p.m. and asked around for the address of the victims' three companions.

The report said the two men kept their helmets on the entire time.

The incident happened on the day Arnaiz was buried.  

It will be recalled that the nineteen year old UP-Diliman student was found in a funeral parlor in Caloocan by his parents on September 28, or ten days after he went missing with gunshot wounds in the chest, bruised eyes and handcuff marks.

Police, responding to a taxi driver's robbery complaint, accosted Arnaiz but said the teenager fired at them forcing them to return fire and killing him in the process. The taxi driver, who was said to have positively identified Arnaiz as the person who held him up at gunpoint, is now missing.

De Guzman, meanwhile, was found in a creek in Gapan, Nueva Ecija on September 5, with multiple stab wounds and packaging tape wrapped around his head.

Families of the victims' three companions are asking authorities to provide them with protection.

De Guzman's mother had confided to GMA News that someone named MJ (who introduced himself as Kulot's friend) told her Arnaiz had invited his three companions to carry out a holdup with him but  that they chickened out and went home. Kulot reportedly arrived as they were leaving.

De Guzman's mother said she does not believe her son had been involved in a holdup with Arnaiz and police reports of the taxi driver's complaint indicate that he was held up by only one man.  —KBK/KVD,  GMA News