Two teenagers have been arrested for the death of a 13-year-old
girl who tried to shield her boyfriend in a rumble Saturday in Quezon City
Police said Jeslie dela Cruz was pronounced dead at the Orthopedic
Hospital after being repeatedly punched until she fell to the ground and hit
her head on the pavement.
Dela Cruz, whose boyfriend Paulo Tapel was with her, was just
trying to break up the fight but was beaten up as well.
The teenagers, Jovit Guerrero, 19, and a 17-year-old whose name
was withheld by the police because of his age, were identified by witnesses as among
a gang of 10 youths who attacked another group of teenagers going home from a
birthday party.
The brawl erupted at the corner of Riverside
Police investigator Rhic Pittong said when questioned why he
attacked Dela Cruz’s group, Guerrero said his friends just felt like doing it.
Guerrero alleged that it was a 19-year-old comrade who started the
brawl and who punched Dela Cruz until she fell. He said his friends and the
group of Dela Cruz’s boyfriend had been at each others’ throats in past rumbles.
Both Guerrero and the victim’s friends were at the birthday party
of another teenager at a house on Talayan
Street
Guerrero’s group followed them outside. The boys from both groups
then got into in a free-for-all. Dela
Cruz tried to protect her boyfriend by hugging him to shield him from blows.###
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