source: gmanews
Friends have brought to cyberspace their mourning for a Filipina special education teacher who was shot dead by her Italian-American boyfriend in New York last Black Saturday.
The Facebook page "RIP Ramy 'Zendy' Charisse Jacildo" was created shortly after the death of Jacildo, 22, reported earlier this week.
As of Tuesday evening, the page has been "liked" by almost 1,000 people.
Jacildo, 22, had been in the United States since March 25 to visit her parents who had migrated there, the news site Visayan Daily Star reported on Tuesday.
Jacildo, a native of Bacolod City and a St. Scholastica’s Academy graduate from there, had gone to the US on a tourist visa.
The New York-based Times Herald-Record said that police responded at 1am on Saturday to a call reporting that shots had been fired at a Woodward Terrace home in Central Valley, New York.
Police believe that Vincent Russo, 26, used a .40-cal handgun to shoot his girlfriend Jacildo several times before fatally shooting himself.
Officers found Russo lying in the home's driveway with a gunshot wound to the head. Jacildo was slumped against the side of the home.
The Times Herald-Record reported that Russo and Jacildo met about a year ago while she was on vacation in Washington D.C., and had been in a long-distance relationship ever since.
On the other hand, the Visayan Daily Star report quoted a Bacolod-based aunt of Jacildo as saying that Russo had proposed marriage but was turned down.
Jacildo's aunt also said that Ramy found him too possessive and discovered that he had a temper.
"Russo told her they could get married and if it did not work out they could easily get a divorce, but my niece being a Filipina, did not believe in that, she was a religious person," the Visayan Daily Star quoted the aunt as saying.
The aunt also said that Jacildo "was full of life, she was a ballet dancer, and worked with special children."
She had gone to the United States as she had a sponsor for a job and most of her family are already living there, the aunt added.
Jacildo finished her high school studies at SSA in Bacolod City in 2005 and her degree in special education at SSA Manila in 2010.
“When her father called to say that she had been killed, I fainted. I have not been able to sleep and whenever I go into her room and see her pictures, I cry," Nancy Ordas, 63, who has worked with the Jacildo family for 22 years, said.
Jaclido was born on August 24, 1988 and died on April 23 (Philippine time).
After college, she taught at Second Home in Bacolod City, a school for autistic children, worked part time for the Teleperformance call center, and studied for a masters degree at the University of Negros Occidental-Recoletos, Ordas said.
The Jacildos own a boarding house in Bacolod City where Ordas still lives.
“She was good to all the household help, she was loving, religious and full of life, I took care of her from when she was a baby, I did not expect this to happen to her," Ordas said.
source: gmanews
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