According to Platinum Times, a police officer who was killed in Adamawa State on New Year’s Day was shot while attempting to break up a quarrel.
Inspector Richard Felix, a mobile police officer serving in Lagos State, was shot dead by an unidentified hoodlum shortly after 12:00 a.m. on Monday near his home in Jambutu, Yola North LGA.
SP Suleiman Nguroje, the Public Relations Officer for the Adamawa Police Department, verified the occurrence, adding, “It’s genuine. We received the report and transported him to the hospital. He was assassinated. Even one suspect was apprehended. The Commissioner of Police has ordered that the investigation be handed to the State CID so that we can determine who the attackers were, who was behind it, and what caused it.
“We learned that some thugs attacked a non-uniformed police officer.” We had no idea why he had been attacked. When Jambutu police officers arrived on the scene, they transported him to Yola’s Specialist Hospital, but the doctor claimed he was brought in dead.”
According to additional information gathered by Platinum Times correspondent on Tuesday, Inspector Richard Felix was shot outside a joint near his home while attempting to separate a brawl.
According to reports, he was shot by one of the fight’s participants.
Felix had gone to the relaxation place when he noticed adolescents engaged in a heated quarrel that was about to devolve into fisticuffs, a family friend of the dead informed Platinum Times in confidence.
He approached them and intervened, but as he moved away, one of the kids stole the gun of a vigilante in the crowd and shot him (Felix) in the back.
“The crowd scampered out of the place when the man got shot, leaving the man to bleed to death,” our source explained.
As the police later confirmed, Felix had died by the time he was taken to the Specialist Hospital, Yola.
It was gathered that Felix, who was in Yola to spend the New Year with his family, planned to attend a cross over service that fateful Sunday night.
He was said to have told his wife to go ahead, that he would join her in church.
The wife was later informed a few minutes into the new year that her husband had been shot dead.