The State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mr. Joseph Offor has come out to give the police version of events that led to the fatal shooting of tennis player Beauty McLeod, mother of Angel McLeod. According to The Sun newspapers, the Police have arrested the trigger happy policeman who allegedly shot dead Beauty Macleod, mother of upcoming tennis star Angel Macleod at the Victoria Island area of Lagos. The victim, was shot dead in presence of her daughter, Angel at the Emperor’s Palace 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. 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. But in a shocking twist, the police man's version contradicts the reports of eyewitness on what led to the shooting. Mr Offor said: “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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Posted: at 29-10-2015 11:58 AM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero
kwamebuyaya at 29-10-2015 01:01 PM (9 years ago) (m)
Unintelligent police account. Who is going to believe cock and bull story that gun exploded and it hit her?. why didn't it hit you (policeman)? Extra-judicial killings in this nation is just to appalling to say the least. You just wasted this woman's life because of your frustration in the police force. RIP to the deceased.
Posted: at 29-10-2015 01:01 PM (9 years ago) | Upcoming
Av said it before they should just make it 50/50 kill the man too. Who is going to replace the girl's mother. Nigerian police they can try to close the case.i don't trust them
Posted: at 29-10-2015 05:37 PM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac
Wat were u expecting d police man to say b4, dat he killed her intentionally?? D police shld not cover for him o. Wat right does a police have to point gun at an un arm citizen talk more of shooting her. We watch as d story unfold.
Posted: at 29-10-2015 08:02 PM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero
litoulalu at 29-10-2015 11:32 PM (9 years ago) (m)
what i know before, police is the one guilding and saving people but now they are the one killing people. just look at the lil girl she used a gun for that surpose to be her younger sister. what a piting.
Posted: at 29-10-2015 11:32 PM (9 years ago) | Upcoming
factfinding at 30-10-2015 08:25 AM (9 years ago) (m)
Is there no CCTV at the Hotel to obtain what exactly happen at the scene ? Police can say either the women try to snatch his riffle or that the Gun exploded by mistake when the women engage him in a fight, all sorts of lies. but with CCTV they will see what happen.
Posted: at 30-10-2015 08:25 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac
chealseafc at 30-10-2015 03:16 PM (9 years ago) (m)
what do you expect from unprofessional set of thugs calling their selves policemen. i know the NPF will definitely work with the policeman's version of the story.
Posted: at 30-10-2015 03:16 PM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac