Trinidad Arteche Etong, wife of ABS-CBN newscaster and DZMM talk show radio host, died Thursday night at exactly 8:50 in the evening, just minutes after two of her sisters and a brother were forcibly dragged away from the hospital where she was confined and brought to a Quezon City court for inquest proceedings. The manner that the Arteche siblings were arrested (without warrants) was captured on national television and elicited widespread sympathy for the family and outrage at the seemingly excessive force used by the Quezon City police in making the arrests. The scene of a grieving family pleading before the police that they be allowed to continue to be at the bedside of their sister who was battling for her life seemed to have had no effect on the arresting officers. As of this posting, those men in uniform have been suspended by the National Police Commission and investigation over the death of Mrs. Etong has been turned over to the NBI.
Yesterday, a forensic expert interviewed over television declared that forensic findings all point toward Mrs. Etong committing suicide. The entry wound, according to the expert, who was commissioned by Ted Failon to accompany the police gathering evidence at the scene of the "crime", was on the right side of the head of Failon's wife judging from the edges of the wound which curved inward and the exit wound was on the left side as its edges were turned outward. He also said that the gun was pointed perpendicular to the face of the victim bolstering the suicide theory as most suicides with a handgun is made that way.
The remains of Mrs. Etong lie in wake at Arlington Funeral Homes and shall be cremated this week.
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