Story: Fauziatu Adam
A 65-year-old man, Daniel Kojo Boadu, yesterday committed suicide by blowing his head with a pump action gun in his room at Odorkor, a suburb of Accra.
Boadu, who had been threatening to kill himself for some time, according to his second son, quarrelled with his second wife in the morning yesterday, after which she left the house.
Later in the afternoon, he threatened to shoot himself and even gave a warning shot, but his children managed to take the gun from him and took the bullets out before giving the gun back to him.
Unknown to them, he had two bullets left in his pocket which he used to kill himself.
When the Daily Graphic got to the house of the deceased, the body had been removed to the morgue, with the family members left in a state of mourning.
Daniel Owusu, the second of Boadu’s 11 children, told the Daily Graphic that his father had been threatening to shoot himself for some months now.
He added that as a result of the threat, they took Boadu’s gun and sent it to his (Boadu’s) elder brother’s place and, therefore, wondered how the deceased got the gun again.
The Crime Officer of the Kaneshie/Odorkor Divisional Police, Supt Baffuor Apenteng, confirmed the story.
He said the police were still investigating the incident.
A 65-year-old man, Daniel Kojo Boadu, yesterday committed suicide by blowing his head with a pump action gun in his room at Odorkor, a suburb of Accra.
Boadu, who had been threatening to kill himself for some time, according to his second son, quarrelled with his second wife in the morning yesterday, after which she left the house.
Later in the afternoon, he threatened to shoot himself and even gave a warning shot, but his children managed to take the gun from him and took the bullets out before giving the gun back to him.
Unknown to them, he had two bullets left in his pocket which he used to kill himself.
When the Daily Graphic got to the house of the deceased, the body had been removed to the morgue, with the family members left in a state of mourning.
Daniel Owusu, the second of Boadu’s 11 children, told the Daily Graphic that his father had been threatening to shoot himself for some months now.
He added that as a result of the threat, they took Boadu’s gun and sent it to his (Boadu’s) elder brother’s place and, therefore, wondered how the deceased got the gun again.
The Crime Officer of the Kaneshie/Odorkor Divisional Police, Supt Baffuor Apenteng, confirmed the story.
He said the police were still investigating the incident.
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