Tragedy As Nigerian Man Is Fatally Shot In USA Five Months After Graduating

The Suspect, Alexander Nwogu

Police in Washington, D.C. USA, are currently searching for two men who shot and killed 23-year-old Nigerian man, Alexander Nwogu, at a gas station on Monday, October 5, 2020.

The Virginia Tech graduate who in May said he had taken a consulting job at Ernst & Young in Northern Virginia, was found dead after someone called police to report the shooting at about 1:30 a.m.

He was found in the 4900 block of Connecticut Avenue Northwest, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.

Nwogu graduated with a bachelor’s in industrial and systems engineering from Tech in May, 2020.