ANGELES CITY – Where’s newspaper columnist Venerando “Bernie” S. Chavit, suspect in the killing of his pregnant wife and her lover at their residence here on April 17?
Police investigators remained clueless on Chavit’s whereabouts after filing multiple murder case and charges in connection with the stolen motorcycle owned by his wife, Girlie David-Chavit, 42, before the Angeles City Prosecutor’s Office a few days after the crime.
In an interview late Wednesday afternoon, city police director Senior Supt. Rodolfo Recomono disclosed that police have yet to receive a resolution from the prosecutors on the charges they filed against Chavit in connection with the murder of Girlie and her alleged lover, Ernesto Del Rosario Briones at Chavit’s house in Timog Park Homes, Pampang. Both victims were Angeles City hall workers.
“As a result, we have no warrant of arrest for Bernie Chavit yet,” added Recomono, stressing that they can’t arrest Chavit if they see him.
Chavit, columnist and contributing editor of the Angeles City-based Central Luzon Times weekly, vehemently denied killing his wife and her lover. Girlie was believed to be seven months on the way.
Chavit sent surrenders feelers a few days after the incident but remained missing.
He said “I am somewhere in Metro Manila” during the interview over GVFM 99 on April 18, a day after the killings.
He reportedly fled using his wife’s motorcycle parked in the garage after committing the crime. The motorcycle was later found abandoned in nearby Porac town.
Police said one of Chavit’s two children with Girlie had seen the suspect argued with their mother before killing her and Briones in their own bedroom just before 6:00 a.m.
