Shooting Incident: Both Police Inspector LASTMA Official Confirmed Dead ...CP to prosecute the late Inspector posthumously

An irate mob on Wednesday beat to death a Police Inspector attached to F-SARS Ikeja, Olukunle Olonade, after he shot dead a LASTMA official, Rotimi Adeyemi, 46, who rebuked him for driving against traffic at Iyana-Ipaja roundabout in Lagos State.

The incident was said to have occurred at 6p.m. last Wednesday. Although a team of policemen drafted to the scene rescued him, the inspector died while being rushed to the hospital.

The state Police Command spokesman, CSP Chike Oti, said the police inspector was driving his Toyota Highlander SUV, with registration number LSR 277 BJ against traffic when the unfortunate incident happened.

“The two men vehemently disagreed with each other after the LASTMA official confronted him, however, during the altercation, the Inspector Olonade allegedly shot the LASTMA officer to death,” Oti said.

Consequently, an irate mob, which thought that the shooter was an armed hoodlum since he was on mufti, was said to have beaten him to stupor, however, while “a team of policemen drafted to the scene rescued him, he gave up the ghost while being rushed to the hospital.”

Oti further revealed that corpses of the deceased have been evacuated to the morgue for autopsy.

Meanwhile, the state Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal, has directed that the late police inspector be tried posthumously in orderly room and be recommended for dismissal from the police force.