Two members of a suspected armed robbery gang who allegedly killed a
member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), during a robbery
operation in Benin, have been arrested by operatives of the Edo State
Police Command. The late corps member, David Onyeasina, was said to
have been shot by the gang after robbing a shop along Muritala
Mohammed Way, close to Edo College, the school said
to be the place of primary assignment of the victim. The 21-year old
Onyeasina, a graduate of Fine and Applied Arts from the Ladoke Akintola
University of Technology, Ogbomosho, Oyo state, was said to have gone to
shop to buy a recharge card when he was hit by the armed robbers
bullet. Edo Police Command Spokesman, DSP Stephen Onwochei, who gave the
names of the two suspects as Mathias Efe and Dominus Aisabodo,
disclosed that they were arrest shortly after the incident and that the
suspects had confessed that the victim was killed during a sporadic
shootout as they attempted to escape after the operation. According to
Onwochei, items recovered from the two arrested suspects include two
cut-to-size guns, nine live cartridges, 10 mobile handsets and jewellery
belonging to their victims.
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