POLICE KILL ROBBERY SUSPECT AND RECOVER STOLEN VEHICLE (Graphic Content)

The police in Abuja on Thursday night gunned down an armed robbery suspect who snatched a Toyota Highlander Sport Utility Vehicle at Garki Area 11 and attempted to rob a supermarket with two other suspects, who managed to escape. The jeep was recovered along with an SMG rifle, nine live ammunition and three cell-phones.

The Divisional Police Officer in charge of the Central Police Station, Wuse, Chief Superintendent of Police Haruna Garba, said that he received a distress call around 8.15 pm that a robbery operation was going on at a supermarket. On getting there, they saw three men running and gunned down one of them and recovered an SMG rifle, nine rounds of live ammunition and three cell phones from him. The DPO said that the calls and messages coming into the deceased's phones would be analysed to get the other gang members.

The owner of the SUV explained that he came from Gombe to visit his former school mate in Abuja, while parking the car, three men accosted him, put a gun to his head and slapped him. He identified the dead suspect as the person that snatched the car key from him and collected N20,000 and four phones from him and his friend. 

See the pic of the dead suspect after the cut...
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