The police in Enugu are investigating the circumstances surrounding the shooting by a middle-aged man and former member of the Enugu State Independent ElectoralCommission, Mathias Nweze, of one of his wives and a mother of six.
Nweze, who hails from Umuida Enugu Ezike in the Nsukka area, reported himself to the police after the incident.
He had in his report to the police claimed that while he was sleeping in his house at about 11:00 p.m. last Saturday, his generator packed up twice, arousing his suspicion that robbers may have invaded his compound.
He told the police that consequently he brought his pump action gun and fired several shots in the direction of the generator.
Nweze, who was living with the two wives at the time of the incident, said that in the process of trying to shoot whoever was out there, one of the shots hit his wife leaving her critically injured.
However, some neighbours have dismissed Nweze's story, claiming that he must have made up that story to the police to escape punishment.
Two of his neighbours, who spoke to our reporter, narrated how the suspect had given money to the late wife to cook some delicacy for him, but was disturbed when he found out that he was served something else which they identified as 'corn mill'.
He was said to have been annoyed by the development and in the ensuing face-off allegedly shot and killed the wife, who hailed from Imufu in the same Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area.
The deceased, Daily Sun gathered, was later rushed to New Testament Hospital Ogurute Igbo-Eze North LGA where she was confirmed dead by the doctor.
A statement, by the police command's spokesman, Mr. Ebere Amaraizu, confirmed the incident, adding that the body had been deposited in the mortuary for autopsy.
Amaraizu also said the police have commenced full-scale investigations into the incident.
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