{"id":19183,"date":"2024-02-26T20:03:29","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T20:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/ondo-middle-aged-allegedly-murders-friend-with-gas-cylinder\/"},"modified":"2024-02-26T20:03:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T20:03:29","slug":"ondo-middle-aged-allegedly-murders-friend-with-gas-cylinder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/ondo-middle-aged-allegedly-murders-friend-with-gas-cylinder\/","title":{"rendered":"Ondo: Middle-aged allegedly murders friend with gas cylinder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A middle-aged man identified as Adebayo Peter took the life of his friend, known as Lekan, at the Ireakari-Oloko junction area in Akure South Local Council Area of Ondo State at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Peter allegedly committed the crime while under the influence of a hard drug suspected to be \u2018ice,\u2019 a crystalized form of amphetamine-based drugs.<\/p>\n<p>After committing the crime, the suspect was apprehended by operatives of the state police command, while the lifeless body of the victim has been deposited at the mortuary.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect and the deceased were said to have hailed from the same community as Ede in Osun State.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources, Peter and Lekan had engaged in an altercation before the former attacked the deceased with a gas cannon, which he smashed on his head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was the shouts of one of their friends, who hails from Delta State, that attracted our attention to the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we got into the room, we found Lekan in a pool of blood. He was still breathing. But shortly after, he died. We had to invite the police.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While confirming the incident, the police spokesperson in the state, Funmilayo Odunlami-Omisanya, stated that the suspect has been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, for further investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Ondo: Middle-aged allegedly murders friend with gas cylinder<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A middle-aged man identified as Adebayo Peter took the life of his friend, known as Lekan, at the Ireakari-Oloko junction&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[384,4490,15,1803],"tags":[387,2550,180,1806],"class_list":["post-19183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro","category-murder","category-news","category-ondo","tag-metro","tag-murder","tag-news","tag-ondo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}