"Ted Failon Suspect in Wife's Shooting"
This is one of the trade-offs of seeing your daughter happily clapping away at Walt Disney's Cinderella cartoon movie, not watching the news and missing the hottest and latest headline -grabbing story of the month. By 3pm, she has the television all to herself and Mama will just have to wait until B___ finds another diversion.
What was the story? Oh yes, suicide or foul play? That is the most nagging question on everyone nowadays as Ted Failon's wife lie in a hospital somewhere in Quezon City for injuries sustained from a gunshot wound in the head. Both the helpers of the Failon household and Ted Failon, a newscaster on one of the major television networks, say that it (gunshot wound) was self-inflicted with a sucide note apparently left by his wife to prove it. Police, however, state that it was a mere sorry note and could not be conclusively be taken as what it was claimed to be by Mr. Failon,
Based on the stories of the household helpers and Ted Failon, Trinidad Etong was found slumped 15 April 2009, Wednesday morning in a bathroom of the Failons' house bloodied with a gun at her side. Her husband, who just came from the radio station where he had his early morning program, along with his driver and his wife's sister brought her to the hospital where she is now in critical condition. Recent updates have reported that doctors have now declared her as "brain dead".
Police noted certain inconsitencies in the statements of the household helpers and is currently conducting further investigation. As of posting time, Ted Failon has not yet been cleared of his wife's shooting and his driver and helpers has been charged for obstruction of justice for cleaning the bathroom which was the scene of the alleged shooting as well as the vehicle which was used to transport Mrs. Etong to the hospital.
Ted Failon is actually a Waraynon, a native of Tacloban City and was a popular radio broadcaster in the city in his earlier years before he hit it big time in Manila. He was known then by his true name, Larry Etong. He ran for Congressman in the First Congressional District of Leyte against the incumbent Alfred Romualdez, who is now the present city mayor, during the 2001 local elections and won. He opted, however, to return to newscasting over at ABS-CBN and forego re-election where he has been up to this time and can be seen on its daily evening news program, "TV Patrol World".
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