The incident happened in Akiriboto village in Ife North Local Government Area of Osun State,A 15-year-old boy, (names withheld) at the weekend allegedly shot a 12-year-old friend Timilehin Oguntoye to death while playing with a loaded local gun.
According to reliable sources,the incident had thrown the village into confusion as the family of the deceased boy had threatened to retaliate the death of their son but for the intervention of the police in the area. It was gathered that the suspect hot the deceased boy unknowingly when he was playing with his father’s gun at his family compound alongside some of his friends s and when it was discovered that the boy was dead he ran away.
The deceased boy was rushed to the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital (OAUTH), Ile-Ife shortly after he was shot and it was discovered at the hospital that he had died before he got to the hospital as it was gathered that the gun hit the deceased on the head. The case was immediately reported to the police and efforts by the police to arrest the suspected killer had proved abortive, as he had fled from the village to an unknown destination.
Mrs Folashade Odoro the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), who confirmed the incident said the police were on the trail of the suspected killer, saying that the suspect would not go unpunished.
She assured that the police would do everything possible to ensure that the suspect was brought to book in no distant time, emphasizing that officers of the state police command were already on his trail.
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