Police have arrested a 72-year-old man for allegedly stabbing his 35-year-old brother to death in Umuoba, a community in Owerri North Local Government Area of Imo state, South-East Nigeria.
Gatekeepers News reports that the suspect, Donald Akalonu, was said to have repeatedly stabbed the brother, Achilike, to death during a “minor quarrel” on 1 September.
The Spokesman of Imo Police Command, Henry Okoye, disclosed this during a press conference at the police headquarters in Owerri on Friday.
Okoye said another member of the family, Donald, reported the incident to the police.
The Command’s spokesperson said the suspect was arrested following “painstaking investigating efforts” of police detectives at the State Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Homicide Department (SCIID).
“The body of the deceased has since been evacuated and deposited at the morgue for preservation while the suspect will be arraigned in court upon completion of the investigation.”
In a related development, Okoye said police have arrested a 20-year-old man, Chukwuebuka Ogugu, for allegedly shooting his 25-year-old friend, Ifeanyichukwu Ogukwe, to death in Obolo Nzerem, a community in Ehime Mbano Local Government Area of the state.
According to him, the alleged murder was reported by a relative of the deceased Ekwutosi Ogukwe on 18 August which prompted the arrest of the suspect at the scene of the crime by detectives of the SCIID at about 6:25 p.m. of the same day.
Okoye said, “On interrogation, the suspect confessed that he killed his friend but stated that it was not intentional, that he was servicing his late father’s single-barrel gun in preparation for usual hunting activities that faithful evening when he accidentally discharged the gun with the discharged pellets hitting his said friend that visited him on his head and chest, thus bleeding to death on the spot.
“Accordingly, the body of the deceased has been evacuated and deposited at the morgue while the gun has been recovered and registered as exhibit. The suspect will be arraigned in court upon completion of the ongoing investigation by the SCIID.”
