A 32-year-old man, David Shodola, on Friday, July 21, 2023, beheaded an 84-year-old man, Alfred Opadipe, in Iperu, Remo North Local Government Area of Ogun State.
It was gathered that Shodola also died while violently resisting arrest and attacking police officers with a machete.
Confirming the incident, the Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Omotola Odutola, said following a call received from an unnamed informant, police officers led by the Isara Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Bankole Eluyeru, stormed the scene.
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Odutola stated that an attempt to arrest the suspect was allegedly fiercely resisted as he used “the machete on the Divisional Police Officer and his men”.
The police spokesman said the police officers however succeeded in neutralising the suspect.
Odutola said from the intelligence gathered by the police, there was no report of the suspect being mentally challenged.
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