A 32-year -old University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) Mechanical Engineering graduate awaiting his posting for youth service, Mr. Eugine Ujayikre Ighoesuvwo, was on Tuesday night allegedly murdered in cold blood by unknown persons in his one-room apartment at No. 20B Otobo Street, Ughelli Delta State.
A source told our reporter that hoodlums, numbering well over 10, surrounded Ighoesuvwo’s compound between 12 and 1am, smashed the door leading to his one-room apartment while armed with gun, “woke him up from bed and as he was begging them not to terminate his life they ordered him to lie down and at a close range blew his head open with a gun.”
When our reporter visited the scene of the crime in his one-room apartment, the late Ighoesuvwo was seen lying in a pool of his own blood, with some exploded empty cartridges on the floor beside his corpse.
Other items found were a hammer, a very sharp screw driver also believed to have been used on him before the gunshot.
Speaking to our correspondent, sister to the deceased, Elohor, described her late brother as an easy going man and a guitarist who is married to his musical equipment. LEADERSHIP learnt that the entire people living in the compound have all deserted the area for the fear of police arrest.
Meanwhile, by press time, all efforts to speak with the Divisional Police Officer in charge of Ughelli Police Division “A”, Mr. Galadima (CSP), were futile as he was said to be out on official patrol but sources close to his office confirmed the incident, adding that the police had visited the scene of crime, recovered some exhibits and thereafter deposited the corpse at Government Hospital mortuary for autopsy.
He also said that investigation was already on with a view to arresting the perpetrators of the crime.
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