Crime
Two Arrested For Beating Man To Death Over Alleged Car Door Theft
She found her husband in the pool of his blood.
Ikeja, Lagos State– Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested two suspects, Yusuf Ahmed, 22, and Olayinka Sanusi, 34, for allegedly beating a man identified as Sharafadeen Atanda to death in the Surulere area of the state on Thursday, January 4 over claims he stole two car doors.
The Iponri Police Division was informed by the deceased’s wife that she received a call from someone claiming that her husband was being beaten by some persons who accused him of stealing.
The distraught wife said on getting to the scene of the incident, she found her husband in the pool of his blood. She alleged that the same people who beat him up took him in a tricycle popularly known as Keke NAPEP and that she later heard that her husband died why he was being rushed to the hospital.
The DPO at the Iponri police division immediately facilitated the arrest of the two suspects and also recovered the body of the deceased who was abandoned in a Keke NAPEP.
The body has since been deposited at the Mainland Hospital Morgue while an investigation into the matter is ongoing.
