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“Go back to your room,” Babita Vialva and her killer told her 19-year-old daughter seconds before gunshots rang out yesterday morning in a shocking double murder in Penal.
The teen was left inconsolable after stepping out of her bedroom at their Penal Rock Road home to find her mother, Babita, 41, and her father, Shaffeak “Shamboy” Vialva, 52, bleeding from gunshot wounds. While homicide investigators have yet to confirm a motive, a dispute over logging rights is among the angles being pursued.
According to police reports, the couple and their daughter were asleep when the teen was jolted awake by two loud explosions. As she exited her room, she saw her father sitting in a pool of blood outside his bedroom. She then looked into her parents’ room and saw a man standing at the doorway, repeatedly demanding money from Babita.
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