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Crime Stoppers gets tips on Omisong’s killers
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Posted on Mar 17 2009
Police are confident that the killing of a Palauan man who was attacked possibly by two men in San Jose will be solved any time soon.
Acting police spokesman Jason Tarkong said yesterday that they have good leads on the suspects in the murder of Ligardo N. Omisong.
The NMI Crime Stoppers Program received tips about the suspects, said Tarkong, who is also coordinator for the Crime Stoppers Program.
Tarkong, however, stated that he can’t release more information as detectives are still actively pursuing the leads.
He said the victim was also known as Ricardo Omisong.
Sources said Omisong used to hang out in Chalan Kanoa, then he moved to San Jose.
The victim, sources said, was known for asking money from passersby and poker and store customers in San Jose.
According to a police report, the 44-year-old Omisong was found lying on his back on the main road in front of Leo Poker in San Jose in the early morning of Feb. 27.
Omisong was taken to the Commonwealth Health Center where he was in a coma for six days. On March 5, the victim passed away.
A witness told responding police officers that he heard screams from outside his home and when he checked, he saw the victim lying unresponsive on the roadway.
The witness saw two men running north.
An autopsy confirmed that Omisong had been assaulted. Guam chief medical examiner Dr. Aurelio Espinola determined that based on the autopsy, the bruising on the left side of Omisong’s face was consistent with a hard blow or punch.
Espinola also established that the injury on the back of Omisong’s head was consistent with the victim falling on a hard surface.
Espinola concluded that the cause of death was subdural hematoma, with brain contusion.
