DPS classifies Dela Cruz’s death as homicide
The Department of Public Safety has reclassified the death of a Commonwealth Casino Commission employee who was found dead on the ground outside his home on Mt. Tapochau on Capital Hill last Sept. 22 as a “homicide.”
Acting DPS spokesman Lt. Jason Tarkong said yesterday that Guam chief medical examiner Dr. Aurelio Espinola had ruled that the cause of Allan James Boyer Dela Cruz’s death as “undetermined.”
Basically, Espinola could not determine Dela Cruz’s cause of death, he said. In cases when the cause of death is “undetermined,” police usually classify a case as a “homicide.”
“We are treating it as a homicide,” Tarkong said.
Espinola conducted the autopsy at the Commonwealth Health Center’s morgue last Oct. 21, weeks after the body was found on Sept. 22.
In an earlier statement, Tarkong said police responded last Sept. 22 at 2:14pm to a report about a dead person at a house on Mt. Tapochau.
Police met at the scene witnesses who has found Dela Cruz’s body.
Police investigators said the victim was found lying on the ground outside the residence and the body was already decomposing.
Witnesses reportedly attempted the past few days to contact Dela Cruz, but he did not reply. The witnesses then decided to check on him at his residence and found the body.
So what difference does it make in regards to DPS, there is never any action or resolution in any such cases, just another case that goes into the cold case files.
The difference is if the COD was Natural Causes there would be no further investigation to be had unless the case was reopen. With a homicide the possible causes are many and the family would now has a legitimate reason to put pressure on the authorities to make a new break in the case without having to reopen any case.
In most places yes that does make a huge difference unfortunately for here it doesn’t mean anything, they need to over haul Criminal Investigations.
I understand that , that is the way it is supposed to be but unfortunately with this DPS there is no one capable nor has the training to pursue this, so I stated this will go no where and join the rest of all of the unsolved murders and other crimes.
The only way anything will come out of this is by accident or in the case someone “rats” out another.
Another problem in all of this is most probability, as has been the norm, the scene was not preserved and treated as a “crime” scene from the get go.
Investigate Stephan Duenas Castro, responding Officer Duenas, Investigator Hofschneider & Camacho, CCC Ed Cabrera & DLG!
“Undetermined?” I’m not an expert and I can tell you that this was clearly a homicide people. We all knew this. It’s just a matter of time now. Karma will come and get you whoever did this to my brother. WE. WON’T. GIVE. UP.
Whoever the last person with Allan should know. That person should be treated as a suspect until he’s or she’s been clear.
Not too hasty, now–officer.