Imo, July 13, 2023 – The Police command in Imo State has arrested a 22-year-old-man identified as Obinna Ugochukwu, for allegedly stabbing his friend, Nwachukwu Stanley, to death.
The spokesperson of the State Police command, SP Henry Okoye, while parading the suspect, said his arrest followed a case of murder reported at the State Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department (SCIID).
He added that an analysis by the Command’s Forensic Experts led to the arrest of the suspect who hails from Ikeduru LGA of Imo State.
Okoye said the suspect confessed to stabbing his friend Nwachukwu Stanley, who hails from Umuoma in Ikeduru L.G.A of Imo State, with a sharp Knife repeatedly on the upper part of his body when asleep over a misunderstanding that he failed to give him his cut of 3,000 dollars they fraudulently gained in cyber-crime deal.
The spokesperson further revealed that the corpse of the victim has been deposited in the morgue while the suspect will be arraigned in court upon the conclusion of the investigation.
