John Matthew Salilig was laid to rest at the Forest Lake Memorial Park in Barangay Tumaga in Zamboanga City on Saturday morning, alongside his 86-year-old grandfather who died four days after he was reported missing. | alipalajulieINQ /PDI
John Michael, Matthew’s eldest brother, questioned the timing of the announcement of Sakmal’s supposed suicide.
A huge crowd of family members, relatives, friends, and sympathizers gathered for the funeral motorcade and attended the Requiem Mass at the Metropolitan Immaculate Conception Cathedral prior to the internment. Matthew was found dumped in a shallow grave in Imus, Cavite on Feb. 28. After an autopsy, he was flown on a military plane here on Thursday.
“Hopefully, justice will be served. My son died innocently, helplessly. Hopefully, this will be an eye-opener to all the organizations: What is true brotherhood? Brotherhood is about taking care of one another, not killing,” Jeoffrey said. He was then an accounting junior at one of the universities in the city when he and more than a dozen ‘brods’ were asked to initiate a pledgee by delivering a required 120 paddle hits.
Alex recounted that after theirs, two more hazing deaths were committed by Tau Gamma members in the city.
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