The Ekiti State Police Command has confirmed the death of a suspected robber after he was terribly beaten by mob who were mostly students of the Ekiti State University Ado Ekiti.
According to a statement by the PPRO Ekiti State Police Command, ASP Sunday Abutu the incident occurred on Sunday after the deceased and his gang robbed Students’ Hostels Opposite Ekiti State University, Iworoko-Ekiti.
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The statement reads “On Sunday 13th June, 2021 at about 0430hrs, a distress call was received by the Command’s Rapid Response Squad(RRS) that an armed robbery incident was going on in one of the
Students’ Hostels Opposite Ekiti State University, Iworoko-Ekiti.
“The Operatives of the RRS were immediately deployed to the scene of incident. But on getting to the scene, it was discovered that one of the Armed Robbers, one Sunday Oluwasola, had already been captured by the irate Students and beaten to stupor while the other suspects escaped with the Students’ valuables such as Laptops, Phones and Money.
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Abutu noted that the captured suspect, Sunday Oluwasola, was eventually rescued by the Operatives and taken to the Hospital for medical treatment.
He said During interrogation, Sunday Oluwasola confessed to the commission of the crime and mentioned one Tochukwu, Michael and Tomiwa, surnames yet unknown, as his other gang members who fled the scene.
However, Sunday Oluwasola, later developed complications possibly on account of the beating and died at about 0200hrs of June 14th, 2021.
His corpse has been deposited in the morgue for post morterm while effort is ongoing to apprehend the fleeing suspects.
Items recovered from the suspects are: two locally made barrel guns, two cutlasses, two plyers and two human images calved with wood.
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