Shocked Girl Narrates How Neighbour Brutally Shot Her Grandmother Dead After a Quarrel

Posted by Thandiubani on Wed 23rd Mar, 2016 - tori.ng

A crying girl has narrated the shocking and brutal murder of her grandmother by the neigbour following a dispute.

A young 18-year-old girl has narrated how a heartless neigbour shot the grandmother at the back and ran away over a dispute.

The girl, a secondary school student identified as Joy, told the story in tears yesterday how her grandmother, Mrs Clara Uwaifo, 65, a retired headmistress was shot dead in Edo State.

According to The Nation, Joy said: “At about 3:00p.m when my friend and I entered my street returning from school, I sighted my grandmother walking opposite my direction, she was holding a bag and walking towards our house with one Agbangbanyan son following her closely. As I ran to assist her take the bag inside, I accidentally hit my foot against a stone.

“Then my grandmother was approaching the gate, suddenly, I saw the Agbangbanyan son who was wearing blue jeans trouser and a light milk shirt raised his shirt, brought out a short gun and shot my grandmother on the back and ran away.

“My grandmother fell down, I ran and raised her shouting mama stand up!, mama stand up! Help! Help! Help me!, mama looked at me, shook her head, I begged my grandmother not to die.

“One brother now rushed out from our house, joined me and my friend to carry her in Keke Nape (tricycle) to hospital where they said she was dead”.

Joy revealed that the neigbour killed her grandmother after the two neighbouring families quarreled the day a member of Uwaifo family entered the compound of the Agbangbanyans’ to pick their fowl that strayed into the premises.

She alleged that members of the Agbangbanyan family started accusing her slain grandmother and her children of being responsible for the death of their daughter one Oghomwen, who died in Indian. She revealed that they threatened to kill her grandmother even after a petition was written to the commissioner of police, but nobody was invited for interrogation.

The Agbangbanyan’s family compound is currently deserted as non of the family members are ready to speak to press.

The Public Relations Officer, Edo State Police Command DSP Osifo Abiodun said the suspect is a teenage cultist and serial killer on the police wanted list.