At about 2am on Sunday,
November 6, 21-year-old Solomon Odekunle was seen stumbling out of a popular
hangout, Piper’s Bar and Grill, in Ottawa, Canada, with blood gushing out of
his neck.
Eyewitnesses interviewed by the police said few
steps away, he collapsed on Coventry Road. He was later pronounced dead in the
hospital.
According to Ottawa’s CBC
News, Solomon, who was
stabbed by a suspect, who has been identified as 27-year-old Joe Ndikuriyo, was
the 17th victim of homicide in Ottawa since the beginning of 2016.
Saturday Punch learnt that Ndikuriyo
is a Burundian national.
Even though the police in Ottawa have said they
were still piecing together the timeline of events that led to the victim’s
death, news reports suggest that he was stabbed during a fight between
Ndikuriyo and another individual over a woman.
The victim, whose father is a pastor of the
Redeemed Christian Church of God in Lagos according to residents of their
neighbourhood in Fagba, Lagos, was admitted to the University of Ottawa in 2012
to study Economics.
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