Reports reaching us indicates that a 25-years-old man identified as Julius Nwode, has reportedly
murdered his won father, Nwode Nwignoaka, and his 7-years-old sister at
Ifelemenu community, Ekpaomaka in Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi
state on Sunday.
According to PREMIUM Times, an eyewitness disclosed that Julius
went berserk killing his father and sister before attacking six other
residents of the community who came to intervene in the matter.
It was gathered that he inflicted serious machete cuts on the six
other residents of the area before he was later gunned down by a husband
of one of the victims of his attack, a source said.
A source who did not want to be named, said the suspect had taken
hard drugs when he came into the house, and an altercation reportedly
occurred between him and his father who asked him where he had been.
“When he was attacking his father with machete, Julius’ sister
came out and asked him why he was attacking their father. And he
descended on her and macheted her to death after killing the father.
“Some neighbours who saw what happened came to the scene.
Julius attacked about six of them with the machete. As he was leaving
the area wielding the machete, a man called Peter whose wife was among
those macheted, went inside his house, brought his gun and shot him and
he died instantly,” he narrated.
The corpses of the victims have been deposited at the Federal
Teaching Hospital Abakaliki while the injured are currently receiving
treatment at an undisclosed hospital in the state.
The spokesperson of the police in Ebonyi, Loveth Odah, confirmed
the incident saying that Julius reportedly killed himself after killing
his father and sister.
“The boy is about 25 years and he burns candle and reads some
religious books. So he came home and attacked his father and seven years
old sister with Axe and machete. Thereafter he killed himself,” she said
She said the police were still investigating the incident and she has not been properly briefed on the number of casualties.