From Osakhare Erese, Asaba
The Police Anti-crime team attached to the Ogwashi-Uku Police Division in Ogwashi-Uku community near Asaba in the early hours of Wednesday shot dead an armed robbery suspect said to have hailed from Orogun community in Delta central axis of the state.
It was gathered that the armed suspect was shot alongside two others who sustained fatal injuries and escaped with bullet wounds, unfortunately for him he gave up on the spot.
Confirming the killing of the robbery suspect by the Police Anti-crime Team at Ogwashi-Uku Police Division, told journalists in Asaba, the State Police Commissioner Mustafa Muhammad, disclosed that the killed robbery suspect was apprehended in company of two other members of his gang after raiding the homes of two families at Aboh Ogwashi-Uku, and disposed them of cash including valuable items, adding in their attempt to escape, the police opened fire on them, and killed one of the three suspects, while two of them escaped with serious bullet wounds in the vehicle they came in.
He said that the killed armed robbery suspect and his gang had been terrorizing Ogwashi-Uku community in the last six months before nemesis caught with them.
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