The Police have arrested a
trigger happy policeman who allegedly shot dead a tennis superstar at the
Victoria Island area of Lagos.
The victim, Beauty
McCleod, was shot dead in presence of her daughter, Angel at the Emperor’s
Place Hotels during a quarrel on Sunday.
The arrest of the killer
Policeman was ordered by the State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Fatai Owoseni.
The tennis star was
lodging in the hotel before she met her untimely death. It was gathered that
McCleod was rushed to the hospital, but died the following day.
According to a Police
source, the policeman, attached to the Moroko Police Station, had been arrested
and detained on the order of the CP.
According to witnesses,
the policeman, attached to the hotel as one of the security guards, allegedly
shot at the tennis star after a brief argument.
A witness who spoke on
the condition of anonymity said that the United Arab Emirates-based tennis
star was lodging in the hotel with her daughter, who is also an up coming
Tennis star before she met her untimely death in the hands of the trigger-happy
policeman when she allegedly challenged the cop for refusing her guest entry into
the hotel’s premises.
The source, close to the
deceased, said: “Beauty returned from Ghana on Sunday where she took her
daughter to a tennis academy. She invited one of her friends to pick her up for
shopping at the hotel that same night but had reservations about the manner the
police guard treated her guest.
“She apparently challenged
the policeman when she returned to her room to pick her wallet and the
policeman chased Beauty down the stairs and shot her in the leg.
“I can’t say what
transpired between them but I saw the policeman shooting her.”
The deceased was said to
have been rejected at a nearby hospital where she was rushed to for treatment
but lost too much blood and gave up the ghost, Monday morning at Saint Nicholas
Hospital, where she was finally admitted.
Confirming the incident,
the State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mr. Joseph Offor said that
the Policeman is attached to the Mounted Troop Police Station and not Moroko
Police Division as earlier speculated.
He said: “Yes, a policeman
shot a woman and she later died. The policeman has been detained at Moroko
Police Station.
“We only have the policeman
version, but the woman is dead. We can’t possibly get to hear her side of the
story again. But investigations are ongoing and we have started talking to eye
witnesses. The story we have however is that the policeman and the woman live
in the same compound at Victoria Island. They had been having issues. They had
another quarrel and the woman attempted to dispossess him of his gun. During
the struggle, the gun exploded. The woman was hit. She later died. That was
what the Policeman said..”
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