A 26 years old man, Adeyemi Babatunde, made good his threat and ran over a car owner who had jumped on the bonnets of his jeep in protest that he had hit his car from the rear.
A security source who reliably informed TheCaveat.info said troubled started on December 8, 2022, at about 8 p.m. with a minor motor accident when the suspect hit the deceased's car from the rear.
The deceased, Obafunsho Ismail, a 46-year-old man, was said to have alighted to see that the suspect had caused damage to the rear light of his car with the suspect's customized number plate Lexus jeep "Olu of Oya".
"The deceased, Ismail Obafunsho, there and then came down from his car, and asked the suspect to come down for them to assess the extent of the damage in order to find solution to it.
But the suspect, Adeyemi Babatunde, refused to come down from his own vehicle and was making effort to run away.
"This infuriated the deceased who insisted that the suspect must come down, and he consequently sat on the bonnets of the suspect car in order to prevent him from escaping from the scene", the sourced claimed.
The source further narrated: "The suspect later came down and warned the deceased to leave the bonnet of his car if he doesn't want to waste his life. He then went back to the car, drove on high speed which made the deceased fell down from the car, and the car ran over him. Not satisfied, the suspect also reversed the vehicle and ran over the deceased again to ensure that he actually died.
Confirming the story, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi said the suspect who ran away with his jeep after completing the act, was later trailed by the police and arrested on December 20.
"He was later traced to his father's house at Kemta Idi Aba area of Abeokuta where he was arrested by men of State Motor Traffic Divison, on the 20th of December 2022, the vehicle he used to commit the crime was recovered to the station as well.
"Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole, has ordered that the suspect be transferred to Homicide section of the state Criminal Investigation Departments for further investigation and prosecution", Oyeyemi claimed.
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