{"id":217253,"date":"2015-12-23T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T20:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=217253"},"modified":"2015-12-23T06:00:19","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T20:00:19","slug":"vitugs-family-marks-one-year-since-her-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/vitugs-family-marks-one-year-since-her-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitug\u2019s family marks one year since her murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-217253 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/vitugs-family-marks-one-year-since-her-murder\/joana-pix1\/'>Joana-pix1<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-217260'>\n\t\t\t\tThe family and loved ones of Joana Katrina Vitug mark her first year death anniversary with a visit to her tomb at the Tanapag Cemetery on Dec. 19. (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/vitugs-family-marks-one-year-since-her-murder\/joana-pix2\/'>Joana-pix2<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-217261'>\n\t\t\t\tPaper lanterns are released to honor Joana Katrina Vitug\u2019s memory on the first year of her death anniversary. (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>It\u2019s been a year since the gruesome murder of Joana Katrina Vitug inside a law office in Garapan on the morning of Dec. 19, 2014, in the hands of a former boyfriend.<\/p>\n<p>Last Saturday, the family and loved ones of Vitug marked her first year death anniversary with an 8am Mass at the San Antonio Church and then a visit to her tomb at the Tanapag Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>There, the family released paper lanterns to honor Vitug\u2019s memory.<\/p>\n<p>Vitug was shot and killed by Police Officer 1 Christopher S. Santos, who then shot himself in the head inside the Mailman and Kara law offices in Garapan where she worked as a paralegal.<\/p>\n<p>Vitug, 30, and Santos, 24, had one child together; Vitug had three other children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a year since the gruesome murder of Joana Katrina Vitug inside a law&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":217260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8809,6790,1432,8810],"class_list":["post-217253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-joana-katrina-vitug","tag-last-saturday","tag-police-officer","tag-tanapag-cemetery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}