ANGELES CITY – More mystery has shrouded the computer technician now being hunted by the police here as the “serial killer” of foreigners and their Filipino companions in this city as photos surfaced indicating he could have various firearms, including a powerful M-16 rifle.
Sources who asked not to be named provided Punto exclusively with several photos of suspect Mark Dizon, 28, holding at least three varieties of short arms, including a .9 mm pistol and an M-16 which he allegedly used in the fatal shooting of three foreigners and five of their Filipino companions in three separate incidents this month.
The photos also showed Dizon displaying a .38 caliber revolver and another pistol smaller than a .9 mm.
A foreigner who asked not to be named said Dizon had been known to steal laptops and that he was believed to have copied from computers information on the financial dealings of their owners.
Told about the photos, city police director Senior Supt. Danny Bautista said Dizon could indeed be dangerous, but he expressed hope that his parents would succeed in convincing him to surrender.
Bautista said he had seen one photo of Dizon holding a firearm but that he was not aware the suspect could have more arms. “It is possible he merely posed with those firearms just for photos,” he said.
But some people in the foreign community, who all asked not to be named for fear of reprisal, said the case of Dizon “is more complicated” than is being so far reported. They said Dizon, noted to be good-looking, had befriended foreigners in this city through his skill in repairing computers and as a reflexologist.
Members of civic groups noted that while a local court issued a warrant of arrest against Dizon way back in 2005 for carnapping and robbery, he had never been arrested despite his visibility among foreign communities in this city.
In an interview yesterday, Bautista reiterated his belief that Dizon’s interest could have been beyond the laptops he stole from the foreigners he had killed.
“It is possible he was interested in the contents of the laptops that could give him access to the financial transactions of the foreigners,” he said.
Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan said the filing of charges against Dizon came after pawnshop owners surrendered last Sunday a laptop, a camera, and a cellphone he stole from his second set of victims, South African national Geoffrey Allan Bennun, 60, and his live-in partner, Abegail Helina, 20, whose decomposing bodies were found inside their house at Oasis Hotel and Villas in Clarkville Compound in Barangay Anunas here last July 12.
Chief Insp. Luisito Tan, head of police Station 4, said at least two witness also “positively” identified Dizon as the suspect in the fatal shooting of retired US air force MSgt. Albert Mitchell, 70, his wife Janet Andrenada, 53, their househelps Isabel Fajardo, Marissa Prado, and Yulberto Catli in Hensonville Court subdivision in Barangay Malabanias last July 22.
The laptop, camera, and cellphone were surrendered by the owners of a local pawnshop after they learned that Dizon was the suspect in the murders. They said Dizon pawned the items to their shop for P20,000 last July 21, a day before the Mitchells were killed.
Pamintuan said police have also tagged Dizon as the suspect in the murders last July 16 of British James Bolton Porter, 51, and his live-in partner, Melissa Madarang, 22, in their house at 4-11A Nicolas St. in Sta. Maria subdivision in Barangay Balibago here.
Probers tagged Dizon as a serial killer in the three cases based the pattern that showed laptops as targets and on laboratory findings that all the bullets that killed the victims came from one 9 mm. pistol.
Sources who asked not to be named provided Punto exclusively with several photos of suspect Mark Dizon, 28, holding at least three varieties of short arms, including a .9 mm pistol and an M-16 which he allegedly used in the fatal shooting of three foreigners and five of their Filipino companions in three separate incidents this month.
The photos also showed Dizon displaying a .38 caliber revolver and another pistol smaller than a .9 mm.
A foreigner who asked not to be named said Dizon had been known to steal laptops and that he was believed to have copied from computers information on the financial dealings of their owners.
Told about the photos, city police director Senior Supt. Danny Bautista said Dizon could indeed be dangerous, but he expressed hope that his parents would succeed in convincing him to surrender.
Bautista said he had seen one photo of Dizon holding a firearm but that he was not aware the suspect could have more arms. “It is possible he merely posed with those firearms just for photos,” he said.
But some people in the foreign community, who all asked not to be named for fear of reprisal, said the case of Dizon “is more complicated” than is being so far reported. They said Dizon, noted to be good-looking, had befriended foreigners in this city through his skill in repairing computers and as a reflexologist.
Members of civic groups noted that while a local court issued a warrant of arrest against Dizon way back in 2005 for carnapping and robbery, he had never been arrested despite his visibility among foreign communities in this city.
In an interview yesterday, Bautista reiterated his belief that Dizon’s interest could have been beyond the laptops he stole from the foreigners he had killed.
“It is possible he was interested in the contents of the laptops that could give him access to the financial transactions of the foreigners,” he said.
Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan said the filing of charges against Dizon came after pawnshop owners surrendered last Sunday a laptop, a camera, and a cellphone he stole from his second set of victims, South African national Geoffrey Allan Bennun, 60, and his live-in partner, Abegail Helina, 20, whose decomposing bodies were found inside their house at Oasis Hotel and Villas in Clarkville Compound in Barangay Anunas here last July 12.
Chief Insp. Luisito Tan, head of police Station 4, said at least two witness also “positively” identified Dizon as the suspect in the fatal shooting of retired US air force MSgt. Albert Mitchell, 70, his wife Janet Andrenada, 53, their househelps Isabel Fajardo, Marissa Prado, and Yulberto Catli in Hensonville Court subdivision in Barangay Malabanias last July 22.
The laptop, camera, and cellphone were surrendered by the owners of a local pawnshop after they learned that Dizon was the suspect in the murders. They said Dizon pawned the items to their shop for P20,000 last July 21, a day before the Mitchells were killed.
Pamintuan said police have also tagged Dizon as the suspect in the murders last July 16 of British James Bolton Porter, 51, and his live-in partner, Melissa Madarang, 22, in their house at 4-11A Nicolas St. in Sta. Maria subdivision in Barangay Balibago here.
Probers tagged Dizon as a serial killer in the three cases based the pattern that showed laptops as targets and on laboratory findings that all the bullets that killed the victims came from one 9 mm. pistol.
