Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have killed an alleged madman who allegedly beheaded an 84-year-old man, Elder Alfred Opadipe, in Ipara community, Remo North Local Government Area of the state.
32-year-old man, David Shodola, who was suspected to be mentally ill, threw Ipara town, Remo-North Local Government Area of Ogun State into confusion after allegedly beheading an 84-year-old resident, Alfred Opadipe.
The ‘madman’ was, however, shot dead by men of the state police command after he reportedly resisted arrest.
A video clip, which went viral , showed the lifeless body of the octogenarian on the ground with the head a few metres away.
A witness account in the viral clip revealed that the suspect was a madman.
Police Spokesman, Omotola Odutola, confirmed the incident in a terse statement made available journalists in Abeokuta on Friday.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Omotola Odutola, who confirmed the incident in a statement in Abeokuta said the command received a distress call from an informant on the matter as policemen, led by the Isara Divisional Police Officer, CSP Bankole Eluyeru, were deployed in the scene.
Odutola said following a call received from an unnamed informant, police officers led by the Isara Divisional Police Officer (DPO), CSP Bankole Eluyeru stormed the scene.
She said an attempt to arrest the suspect was fiercely resisted as he used “the machete on the Divisional Police Officer and his men.”
Police spokesman said the team succeeded “in neutralising the suspect and weapon recovered from him.”
Odutola, however, said there was “no recount of the suspect being a madman from the intelligence the police gathered.”
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