Customer shoots car dealer over N2.5m car deal in Abuja
A self acclaimed consultant with a construction firm, Abdulkareem Sheu, has been arrested for allegedly shooting a car dealer, Yakubu Ayuba, in the head.
Sheu, 30, was said to have bought a Volkswagen Passat car worth N2.5m from Ayuba sometime in April 2018 and paid N1.5m in cheque with a promise to pay the balance after delivering the vehicle to the owner in Kaduna.
Ayuba was said to have released the car to the suspect based on the previous successful transaction they had.
Sheu reportedly returned from Kaduna two days later and went to pick Ayuba at his home, under the guise that he wanted to pay him the balance.
He allegedly drove Ayuba to Minister Hill, Abuja, in a Mercedes Benz he brought from Kaduna around 7:00pm and parked at a junction. The Gombe State indigene allegedly brought out a pistol and shot Ayuba in the head at close range.
Sheu allegedly abandoned the car at the scene after committing the crime. Some passersby rushed the victim to a hospital where he was treated.
Operatives of the Intelligence Response Team were able to able to apprehend the suspect.
Police say the initial cheque of N1.5m handed to the victim by Sheu turned out to be a dud as it was rejected upon presentation at the bank.
