The Edo State Police Command said it has arrested the trigger-happy vigilante who accidentally shot his colleague to death at a funeral in Benin City last weekend.
The command also stated that the locally made single-barrel gun and the expended cartridge used for the murder were equally recovered.
Police identified the alleged killer vigilante as Moses Isimor, 42, a member of Edo State Security Network (ESSN).
The Command spokesman, SP Chidi Nwabuzor, disclosed this to our correspondent who was in his office on Monday for an update on the killing that took place on Friday, October 20.
Our checks at the police command headquarters Monday afternoon revealed that investigators at the homicide section of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) have commenced investigation.
The locally made single-barrel gun and the expended cartridge recovered from the suspected shooter were in custody of exhibits keeper at the police headquarters, Benin.
Recall that The Nigerian Observer had last Saturday reported that a trigger-happy vigilante accidentally shot to death his colleague at a funeral in Benin City.
The killing, it was reported, forced mourners to scamper to safety at 5th Eheneden Lane, off Eheneden Street, off Ekehuan Road, Uzebu Quarters, in Benin City.
The victim, Cyril Igiebor, 28, was said to have recently bought a flight ticket to travel to the United Kingdom after he successfully secured a five-year UK work visa.
He was among a team of armed vigilante members present during a Service of Songs in honour of a woman (name withheld) at her residence.
It was gathered that the bullets from the gun hit the victim’s arms and chest prompting his being rushed to a nearby private hospital.
The hospital was alleged to have demanded a police report before giving him the needed lifesaving medical attention.
He, however, died few hours after while being taken to a government-owned hospital at the city centre.
