Suspected cultists have reportedly shot dead a 43-year-old man, Yinusa Okunloye, at his residence in Ofatedo, Egbedore Local Government of Ondo state.
The victim was said to have been killed in the early hours of Saturday.
The Police Public Relations Officer of the state police command, CSP Yemisi Opalola, made this known in a statement circulated to media houses.
The statement read, “Today, at about 1.30 a.m. one Ismail Azeez of No.5 Olofa Street, Ofatedo came to the Ido Osun Police Division Headquarters to report a case of attack and killing at his residence.
“He reported that about 12.00 a.m. of the same day, a group of suspected cultists, numbering three, invaded his residence and called out the victim, Yinusa Okunloye, from his room and thereafter shot him in the chest.”
“The victim died on the spot and his corpse was removed by the police and deposited at UniOsun Teaching Hospital in Osogbo, for autopsy.
“None of the culprits had been arrested, however ,the command is making frantic efforts to get them apprehended”,
