Son smashes 83-year-old father’s head in Enugu
The Enugu State Police Command has commenced investigation into the alleged killing of a father by his son at Ojinato, a community in the state.
The Command’s spokesman, SP Ebere Amaraizu, said in a statement in Enugu on Tuesday that the incident happened on May 4.
According to the statement, the deceased, Pa Nathaniel Chukwuemerie, who hailed from Ogidi in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra, was killed by his son simply known as ‘The Boy’.
The statement explained that 83-year-old Chukwuemerie, a resident at Ojinato community in the state died when ‘The Boy’ smashed his head with pestle over a yet to be established issue.
The elderly man was rushed by sympathizers to a nearby hospital where he was confirmed dead by a doctor, and the corpse was subsequently deposited at the Oji River General Hospital morgue.
“The suspect has been nabbed although information from a source closer to the place of the incident revealed that before the incident that the suspect had been behaving abnormally suggesting mental illness,” the statement added.
