by Taiwo Jimoh

Detectives from Homicide Section of the State Criminal Investigations Department (SCID) have arrested a policeman for allegedly shooting and killing a 21-year-old boy, while he was praying at the Lagos Island area of the metropolis.

The policeman, attached to the Lion Building Station, has been simply identified as Chelsea. Eye witnesses claimed that that the tipsy policeman, slipped and his corked rifle exploded, pumping three bullets into the stomach, right hand and knee of the victim named Qouzeem Hassan.

Hassan was rushed to the Lagos Island General Hospital by policemen, but he was confirmed dead on arrival.

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