A police Corporal, Sunday David, attached to the Special Anti- Robbery Squad, SARS, Ikorodu, Lagos State Police Command, was Sunday, found dead with his brain allegedly blown out in his Camry car at the Agege area of the state.
According to New Telegraph, the policeman was shot just as he was trying to rescue a cyber-crime fraudster from some angry youths on Amoo Street.
Apart from the policeman’s corpse, three other bodies were seen at the scene. One of them is said to be the body of the fraudster, Obey, whom David tried to rescue.
The other two bodies reports allege were those of Sulaimon and Segun, youths residing at Agege, where the shooting took place.
Following David’s death, police authorities were said to have searched the car and his service pistol was found on his waist band and one AK47 rifle, fully loaded with ammunition, was also discovered inside his car boot.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, had warned that no SARS operative should ever go off duty with rifle or pistol.
A police source said, “We were called that a SARS official was attacked on Amoo Street, Agege.
“On getting there, David was already dead. He was shot through the roof of his vehicle. We noticed blood stains inside the vehicle. People gathered around it. “But when SARS reached there, the crowd dispersed,” the police source added.
“One of them told us that David and two people were in his car. They got to a junction where there was traffic and a man jumped on the roof of the car and shot them. He shot them through the roof, from behind. David’s brains were blown out. He slumped over his wheel of his car when SARS reached him.
“The other two men with him in the car were rushed to the hospital, where they died. Nobody knows the identities of the two men who were inside the car with David.”
“Although witnesses claimed that David shot someone and was escaping, they refused to produce the body of the person they said David killed,” the source stated.
Speaking further, the source said, “The suspected fraudster, Obey said to have been driving through Amoo Street around 2p.m. when some youths who were playing football at Main Stadium in the area, sighted him and blocked his vehicle.
“They allegedly demanded money from him. Obey gave one of his boys his Automated Teller Machine, ATM to withdraw N200, 000 for the youth. The guy who went to the ATM gallery returned with just N60, 000. This led to pandemonium, with the youths insisting the money would not be enough to share.
“When Obey sensed that the youth were becoming violent, he called his police friend, David, via phone. It was claimed that David opened fire immediately he reached the scene. Two of his bullets hit Sulaimon and Segun who allegedly died on the spot,” the police anonymous source stated.
The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Joe Offor, confirmed the incident. He said the bodies of the deceased have been deposited at Ile-Epo General Hospital.
“We are still investigating the cause of the incident. There is no arrest so far.
“We are still investigating the cause of the crisis. The late policeman was attached to SARS, Ikeja,” the PPRO confirmed.
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