BACOLOD CITY – The arraignment of the two teenagers involved in the brutal killing of Bacolod-based Dr. Andres Gumban Jr. has been set by the Regional Trial Court on June 18.

The murder case has been assigned to RTC Branch 41 under President Judge Ray Alan Drilon.

The suspects are Fof Pascual, 18, and his 16-year-old companion, who is detained at the Social Development Center in Bacolod for being a minor.

Despite the filing of murder cases against the two teenagers, the doctor's family believes someone had him killed.

Eddie Gumban, the doctor's nephew, said in an interview the two suspects should say who is the mastermind.

At Sunday's interment, Gumban said if his uncle wasn't murdered, he could still have helped more poor people at their family's place in Barangay San Isidro, Toboso, Negros Occidental.

The suspects killed Gumban at his Bacolod residence on May 10, and took a video of the crime. They stabbed the doctor 35 times, slashed his throat, and put an X mark on his face.

Senior Supt. Ricardo de la Paz, director of Bacolod City Police Office, said that based on their investigation, no other people entered the house of the victim aside from the two suspects.

"Later, if witnesses will come out or if we will discover an evidence that there are other people involved, we will file a motion (to amend the case)," he said.

The City Prosecutor's Office said the video taken through the cellular phone of the minor that showed how Gumban was killed is vital evidence to indict the two suspects for murder.

He added that it is also clear they were the aggressors contrary to their claims that they invoked self-defense because the doctor made sexual advances on the minor.*NLG