Grand Tip Bag alleged Ragnarok-related Murder

The Grand Tip Bag alleged murder is a story which derives from photos taken of a supposed newspaper clipping which detailed a murder committed by a Ragnarok Player over a "Grand Tip Bag", a mistranslation of "Golden Thief Bug", which the player allegedly murdered someone over.

Text of the supposed article

SK Chair's Killing Ties To P1.5M Reward

Bacoor, Cavite - Ragnarok is his real life and he is the guild master. What he wanted was the Grand Tip Bag -- the game's cheat code, a computer card that will lead him to a series of online game victory. And he shots two people to death, in real life, simply for that GTB.

An 18-year-old student of Mapua Institute Of Technology (MIT) was arrested by Bacoor police authorities in Malate, Manila recently after the lone witness and survivor of a shootout that killed a Sangguniang Kabataan chairman and another youth identified him as the primary suspect. 

Chief Inspector Rommel Marbil, Bacoor police chief, presented to Mayor Jessie Castillo on weekend the suspect identified as Conrad James B. Paraon, a second year Computer Engineering student at MIT and a scion of a prominent family in the province of Batangas. 

Paraon is an aficionado player of Ragnarok, an on-line computer game by Level Up, and is known as a guild master in the virtual world of Ragnarok. 

Police said, Paraon was arrested inside a computer show in Vito Cruz, Malate while playing Ragnarok.

"He didn't resist arrest, and he shows no sign of remorse knowing he was arresed for killing of two people in Bacoor," said Marbil who was perplexed by the suspect's reaction. 

Marbil said that Paraon belongs to a team of on-line Ragnarok game players who joined and won the national competition last June 25 at the World Trade Center that gave out some P1.5 million cash prize. 

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(Grainy image of 3 people in an office) 
GUILD MASTER ARRESTED. Ragnarok on-line game master Conrad James Paraon, in handcuff, faces Mayor Jessie Castillo (sitting) of Bacoor to whom he was presented by C/ Insp. Rommel Marbil (in uniform) after his arrest. Paraon was being tagged by police witnesses as the primary suspect in the killing of a SK chairman and another youth in Daang Bakal, Bacoor. (Photo by Tony Rocamora

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Marbil said the half million of the prize went to the St. Michael Institute in Bacoor who sponsored the team from Cavite, while the remaining P1 million, as agreed upon, was to be sub-divided equally. 

Police record shows that on October 28, while playing computer games inside an internet station in Barangay Daang Bukid, 25 year old SK chairman Alvin Conception and friend Alger Bartolome was shot to death when four teenagers armed with 9mm pistol entered the said shop.

Michael Alejandro, 23, also friends of the two fatalities, luckily survived the shootout when the suspect left him wounded, thinking he was dead.

Alejandro positively identified Paraon who shot them inside the internet station.

Paraon denied his involvement on the killing and added, in his statement, that a certain Mark Sablan, also a Ragnarok player, was the one who carted the one million prizes. 

Alejandro told police investigators however that it was Sablan that Paraon was after that night because it was Sablan who has kept the GTB cheat code that the suspect wanted. 

Police charged Paraon with double murder in court. (By Tina Go-Timbang/Michael B. Silva)