American, Pinoy found dead in Angeles

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Date: 19 January 2013
Source: http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php/news/provincial/43298-american-pinoy-found-dead-in-angeles

ANGELES City — An American tourist and a Filipino bar worker were found dead in separate places here the other day. Chief Insp. Leoncio Senense, head of the Pampanga Criminal Investigation and Detection Team, identified the American as James Hugh Coble, 47, of Apartment 3E Elben Villas, Clark View Subd., Bgy. Malabanias, and the Filipino bar worker as Jeempee John Hije, 23, of Bgy. Mawaque, Mabalacat City. Coble’s body was discovered after foul odor emanating from the room he was renting spread throughout the apartment compound. Hije’s body, on the other hand, was found with multiple stab wounds at a vacant lot on 4th St., Balibago village. Senense said the already bloated and decomposing body of Coble was found sitting on a couch and there was no indication of forced entry or struggle inside the apartment. A Japanese friend of Coble told the police that the latter was taking sleeping pills and drinking alcohol before going to bed. Hije, who worked at the Golden Nile Bar along the red-light district of Fields Avenue, was apparently robbed before he was stabbed repeatedly by still unidentified suspects. Hije’s younger sister told the police that the victim failed to come home since Jan. 17.