UNILAG student shot dead while attempting to recover colleague's stolen iPhone

At Harvey Road, Moore Road Junction, in the Yaba area of the state, armed robbers shot and killed a University of Lagos undergraduate who only went by the name Adekunle.

According to information obtained by The PUNCH, Opeyemi, a colleague of Adekunle's who goes by the name Opeyemi, was robbed of her iPhone 7 plus by a man who was hanging off the back of the shuttle bus that took them from Yaba to UNILAG.

Angered by the situation, Opeyemi called for help, and Adekunle pursued him in a last-ditch effort to get the phone back from the thief who had jumped off the bus and fled.

It was discovered that one of the thugs believed to be working with the fleeing suspect suddenly appeared and shot the 23-year-old as Adekunle was drawing near the suspect.

An eyewitness who spoke with our journalist and asked that his name not be used for security reasons claimed that Adekunle was shot in the head by the accomplice of the thief, who then immediately passed away.

He said, “The incident happened on June 3, around 9 pm; what happened was that someone shot the deceased boy at close range on the left side of his head, and he died on the spot. An ATM card found on him bears the name Adekunle.

“Later on, we gathered from a girl that gave her name as Opeyemi, who claimed to be a student of Business Administration, UNILAG, that she and the deceased, whom she knew as a student of UNILAG, boarded a shuttle bus from Yaba, and were heading to UNILAG when she got dispossessed of her iPhone 7 plus by a thief hanging at the back of the bus.

“She said the deceased attempted to help by pursuing the robber but in the process, another group of persons came out and one of them shot him at close range on the left side of his head and he died on the spot.”

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