Businessman Benedict Gochangco, who survived an ambush in August this year in Bacolod City, has filed attempted murder charges against his former girlfriend and three other John Does before the City prosecutor’s office last week, his legal counsel Maphilindo Polvora yesterday said.

Polvora said Gochangco had been receiving death threats after he filed qualified theft charges against the suspect, whose name is being withheld by the DAILY STAR, for allegedly stealing his jewelry.

In his complaint affidavit, a copy of which was furnished the DAILY STAR by Polvora, Gochangco said that sometime in the afternoon of August 17, after the Bacolod Regional Trial Court Branch 50 issued the arrest warrant against his former lover, a man called him through his phone and told him to withdraw the case or something bad will happen to him.

Gochangco also said that, after taking his lunch at his parents’ residence at Capitol Subdivision, he decided to go home to Santa Clara Subdivision at about 1 p.m. When his Gray Honda Accord vehicle was approaching the junction of Lacson Street and C.L. Montelibano drive, he saw his former girlfriend across Lacson Street.

Gochangco added that three persons, who were armed with .45 caliber pistol rushed to his left side and fired several shots at him but he was able to duck to the passenger’s side.

He said he saw one of the suspects unload his firearm and rush to his vehicle to shoot him but the firearm jammed. He said he drove his car away from the area and proceeded to Station 3 and that he heard more gunshots while he was leaving.

Gochangco said he lamented that in the past four years of their relationship, he had showered the suspect with love and treated her like a wife, although they were not married and were not living together.

The National Bureau of Investigation and the Bacolod City Police Office conducted a parallel probe to identify the suspects in the failed assassination try on Gochangco.*APN

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