MANILA, Philippines — A 50-year-old American was found dead early Friday in a Quezon City hotel room, two days after he checked into the establishment, police said.
Case investigator Police Officer 2 Alvin Quisumbing said Dominic Joseph Salfi, 50, was discovered lying face down on his bed and his body bore no signs of injury. A three-page handwritten last will and testament was found in the man’s room at the Tune Hotel on Timog Avenue, he added.
Quisumbing said the body was discovered at 12:50 a.m. Friday when hotel employees opened the room at the insistence of Safli’s girlfriend, who said she wanted to check on him because he had not been answering her calls.
Quisumbing said an autopsy was to have been performed on Salfi’s body but the results were not yet ready by Friday afternoon.
According to him, hotel employees told investigators the woman asked the hotel’s management to open Salfi’s room as he was not responding to her calls.
The American lived in Barangay (village) Almanza in Las Piñas City and checked into the hotel at around 9 p.m. Wednesday.
The woman said she wanted to check on the victim’s condition. Accompanied by two employees, the victim did not respond to calls and knocks at the door.
This prompted the employees to open the door with a master key card.