Man Stabs His Parents To Death, Flees Scene

Michael Okhide, a 23-year-old man, allegedly stabbed his parents, Clement and Toyin, his father and mother respectively, to death in their home  Akeem Gbadamosi Street, Ejigbo, Lagos State.

According to PUNCH Metro, the young man and his parents had a brief altercation after during which the incident happened. It was also gathered that he had allegedly attacked his sister who had only returned home from here Youth Service.

She said that she noticed bloodstains in the house and was attacked by her brother. She narrates the account, “When I got home around 5.30pm, I met the entrance door open and saw blood on the net. The door to the kitchen was also when I entered into the kitchen, I saw that there was bloodstain everywhere and I became scared.

“As I was leaving the kitchen, I heard my mummy screaming my name that I should run, and immediately, I saw Michael where I was and I saw bloodstains on him.

“He told me to come inside and I refused, so, both of us started struggling and he stabbed me in my stomach and my hands but I was lucky that the cut was not deep. He wanted to prevent me from I was lucky to escape and he ran back inside and later I heard that he ran away and locked the gate with a padlock.”

A neighbor who identified himself simply as , said that Michael was a drug addict, and that he had been expelled from three universities. Giving his own version of the story, he said, “I know that boy that killed his parents; he stabbed the mother and the father to death and also stabbed his sister who just got back from work where she is serving but she was able to run out of the house and survived. The police from the Ejigbo Police Division visited the scene of the crime yesterday to evacuate the corpses and also came today for further investigation.

“Nobody was around when he stabbed his parents to death in their apartment. That boy has been a in their flesh and was a drug addict that had been rusticated from three private universities. He ran away after perpetrating the crime.”

The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Bala Elkana, said that a search was underway and that the stabbed victims were delivered to the Isolo General Hospital, Lagos.

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He said, “On Tuesday, February 4, 2020, around 6pm, I was alerted that a young man, Michael Okhide, 23, had killed his father, Clement Okhide, 60 and suspected to have seriously injured his mother on No 6 Akeem Gbadamosi Street. When our men were to the scene, we found Clement, dead in the pool of his blood in the kitchen. Blood was also seen all over the kitchen and a thorough search of the house led to the discovery of the remains of Clement’s wife, Toyin, 50, in one of the locked-up rooms upstairs.

“Two corpses were recovered and deposited at the Isolo General Hospital’s mortuary. The assailant equally stabbed his sister, Mary, in the stomach and on the hands. She has visited the Ejigbo Health Centre where she received treatment. A manhunt has been launched to arrest the fleeing assailant.”