ILOILO City – He caught his father maltreating his mother, police said.
This prompted the 19-year-old Percival Masula to attack his 42-year-old father Janival with an axe in their house in Barangay Rumbang, Pototan, Iloilo around 6 p.m. on Wednesday, a police report showed.
Janival and his wife who was not identified in the report were having an argument prior to the incident.
Janival sustained a stab wound on the head. He was rushed to the Iloilo Provincial Hospital in Pototan for treatment.
Percival remains at large as of this writing.
According to the police, Percival tried to stop Janival from hurting his mother but the latter just ignored him.
The suspect then got an axe and stabbed his father on the head, added the police./PN
