The dead body found with 31 stab wounds in Gapan, Nueva Ecija was not 14-year-old Reynaldo de Guzman, the 14-year-old companion of slain teenager Carl Angelo Arnaiz, police said Monday.
The Philippine National Police that conducted DNA test on the cadaver said lab tests did not match the DNA taken from de Guzman’s parents, PNP’s Deputy Director Fernando Mendez Jr. said in a press briefing.
“The source of the DNA profile obtained cannot be the biographical offspring of Eduardo Garbrila y Sta. Ana and Lina De Guzman y Dagante,” Mendez said.
Although his parents identified the body as their son’s, PNP said the result of the DNA test is “99.9 percent” accurate.
The identity of the body was still unknown, the official said.
De Guzman’s father confirmed that it was his son through a mark on the boy’s neck and a wart on the left knee.
The boy had been missing since he and Arnaiz left their homes in Cainta, Rizal on August 17; Arnaiz was reportedly killed in a police shootout after allegedly attempting to rob a taxi driver.
