CITY OF SAN FERNANDO—The death toll in a massacre last Friday north of here has increased to seven with the death of the head of the household on Monday.

Nicolas Edejer passed away at 3:45 a.m. at the Sacred Heart Hospital in nearby Angeles City, San Fernando police chief Supt. Ricardo David said, citing a report by the victim’s physician Dr. Keith Vitan.

Edejer, 42 and a bangus (milkfish) trader, was shot in the head during the massacre that killed his wife Corazon, son Kenneth, nephew Nelson Dominico, housemaids Teresita Lansangan and Kaykay and Benigno Villanueva in a house on No. 19 Molave St., L & S Subdivision.

The six were found dead in separate locations in the two houses in the compound. They all sustained gunshots in the head in the killings that investigators estimated to have happened between 4 a.m. and 6 p.m. last Friday.

The police have been tracking the main suspect whose name has not been released. No case for robbery with homicide has been filed yet.

Edejer’s nine-year-old son was spared. He arrived from school at around 5 p.m. and with the help of two friends, climbed the fence to get entry into the compound and saw the victims sprawled in pools of blood. A relative of Edejer took custody of the boy.