Police Officer Shot His Wife and Five People To Death, Commits Suicide After Hearing About Wife’s Infidelity

It was a bloody Thursday morning for people living at Obantoko area of Abeokuta, as a police corporal attached to the Ogun state Police Command, Sunkanmi Ogunbiyi shot six people to death, before killing himself. The policeman took the action when he learnt that someone was sleeping with his wife.

On hearing the ugly story of his wife’s infidelity, Ogunbiyi left the police headquarters at Eleweran, just a few kilometres to the scene of the incident, on a commercial motorcycle, raced to the house, shot at his wife, Tosin, who is also a police officer attached to Obantoko Police Station, the landlady of the house, Iya Basira, the landlady’s daughter, Basira, the landlady’s son called Taofeek, another unnamed son as well her grandchild called Kaosara Jesu Tofunmi.

He also shot and killed Kunle, the motorcycle rider who brought him to the house before killing himself. Three other victims he shot, one of them called Sikiru, were said to be in critical condition and rushed to Federal Medical Centre at Idi-Aba.

The seven corpses had also been taken away from the scene of the incident and deposited at the Federal Medical Centre, Idi-Aba, Abeokuta.