Thousands of people flocked to cemeteries in the Catholic-majority Philippines on Thursday for their last chance to visit dead loved ones ahead of a government-ordered nationwide closure of graveyards for All Saints' Day.įilipinos usually pour into cemeteries on November 1 for the ancient Christian tradition, many holding family reunions at the gravesites of relatives.īut for the second year in a row, the government has ordered the shuttering of cemeteries for fear the "day of the dead" could turn into a coronavirus superspreader event.Īn official tally shows more than 60,000 people have poured into the sprawling Manila North Cemetery over the past few days where many poor people live in shanties and the mausoleums.Īfter passing through a temperature check, relatives placed small bouquets of white flowers and lit candles on tombs - and then left. After giving his third statement, the police charged Dement with first-degree murder.Filipinos flock to cemeteries ahead of All Saints' Day closure Last updated:
In the third statement, Dement said he hid from the others, who drove off without him, and then he walked to his uncle’s house, about 17 miles away. In his first statement, he said that the four men left the crime scene together, returned to Black’s nearby house, and Dement then walked to a small market and called a cab to take him to his uncle’s house in Huntington. In his third statement, Dement said he was the one who grabbed Crawford by the throat and dragged her from the vehicle. In his first statement, for example, Dement said Phillip Barnett pulled Crawford out of the car. While all the statements implicated Dement, Black, and the Barnetts in Crawford’s death, the accounts varied in the details. The first statement, at around 10 p.m., and the second, at 3:30 a.m., were written down by the police. The West Virginia State Police brought Dement in for questioning on the night of January 28, 2007, and interrogated him for nine hours.
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