School Gardener In Police Net For Killing Student
Operatives of Lagos State Police Command on Sunday said they have arrested a school gardener over the murder of Senior Secondary School student in Lagos.
The command spokesman Bala Elkana, a Deputy Superintendent of police said the incident happened on May 16, 2019 at about 2.40pm when Iponri Police Station received a complaint from Jubril Martins Memorial Grammar School Iponri that one Femi Aderonmu, a gardener with the said school engaged one Adagun Rafiu 16, an SSS 3 student in a fight along Oke-Olu road Iponri and in the process the student fell down and became unconscious and was rushed to Smith Medical Hospital where he later died.
“Eye witness accounts show that the deceased was returning home with his friends after writing WAEC and the suspect blocked him on the way and pulled him down on the accusation that the deceased insulted him.”
He said Homicide detectives from State Criminal Investigation Department Yaba, have visited the scene of the crime, adding that the corpse of the deceased had been deposited at the mortuary for autopsy.
‘’The suspect has been arrested and will be charged to Court for murder after the conclusion of the investigation,’’ he said.
