LAURO Vizconde, 77, whose wife and two children were killed inside their home in Parañaque City in June 1991, died Saturday after suffering from his fourth heart attack.
This was confirmed by Dante Jimenez, chairman of the Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption, a group co-founded by Vizconde.
“Ka Lauro Vizconde just joined his family and our God now,” said Jimenez, who is helping Vizconde in seeking justice for the death of his wife Estrelita, and daughters Carmela, 18, and six-year-old Jennifer on June 30, 1991.
Lauro was in the United States when the massacre happened.
On Friday, Vizconde’s relatives rushed him to the Unihealth-Parañaque Hospital because of heart attack. He was confined with a life support system at the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital.
This is the fourth time that Vizconde suffered heart attack, according to Jimenez, adding that the decision of the Supreme Court to acquit all the accused in the murder have cause his health to deteriorate.
“His health was aggravated by the acquittal,” Jimenez said.
Among the suspects in the celebrated case was Hubert Webb, son of former Senator Freddie Webb, and scions of well-known personalities who were convicted by the Parañaque City regional trial court in 2000.
The High Court, however, overturned the RTC decision in 2010 and acquitted all of the convicts, who had been detained since 1995.