Pandemonium erupted in Umuoke Obowo in the Obowo Local Government Area of Imo State following the killing of a retired Deputy Commissioner of Police, Innocent Brown, and his wife.

According to the villagers retired DCP and his wife were stabbed to death in his village house by unknown hoodlums.

An eyewitness said that the killers, who had not been found, scaled the fence of the building and murdered the couple while they were asleep.

According to report,Innocent Brown is a retired Deputy Commissioner of Police. After his retirement, he returned home and established a business there.Tragedy occurred on Thursday night when he and his wife were killed.

Some unknown hoodlums scaled the fence of his house and stabbed him and his wife to death.

Before help could come their way, they had died. Their killers fled and had not been apprehended up till now.