A lecturer and consultant pathologist at the Lagos State College Showing Medical clinic (LASUTH), Dr Sunday Shoyemi, has introduced to the Lagos Legal Board examining police mercilessness the shot extricated from the top of a casualty of police extrajudicial killing.

Shoyemi introduced the projectile during his declaration on account of Charles Otoo, who was said to have been shot by the police.

The pathologist’s appearance followed a request by board seat Judge emeritus Doris Okuwobi, after a solicitation by the perished’s better half, Victoria Otoo.

Shoyemi affirmed that Otoo seeped to death following a discharge injury to the head which harmed his mind.

He said: “Demise was brought about by extreme injury to the mind following a discharge. We extricated a slug in the reason for looking at the dead body.”

Introducing the shot separated from the perished’s head to the board, he said it would go through a ballistic investigation.

The pathologist likewise introduced an after death report of the expired to the board.

Equity Okuwobi said the board had located the shot and it would be delivered for ballistic assessment any time it was requested.

Prior, Mrs. Otoo affirmed that her better half was shot on October 21, 2020, by men of the Nigeria Police Power, Ojodu Divisional Base camp.

Mrs. Otoo, who was driven in proof by Adebola Lema, told the board that the occurrence occurred around 6pm on October 21 at Ojodu Berger.

“My significant other and I went to the Bus station at Akiode, Ojodu Berger, to purchase staples for the family that evening in the local market, at Ishola Bello Road.

“In the wake of purchasing what we needed to purchase, the police began shooting. I hurried aside, he raced to another side yet it was not far. The police kept shooting, after certain minutes, I saw my significant other on the floor, he was taken shots at the head,” Mrs. Otoo said.

The perished’s better half said the officials were driven by the Station Official (SO) of Ojodu Police Division.

She affirmed that her better half was shot by a female official named Chinyere.

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She told the board that occupants around couldn’t help her significant other promptly he was shot in light of the fact that the police were all the while shooting.

Mrs. Otoo said after a few discharges, the police left the region and her better half was hurried to Province Clinic, Aguda, with the assistance of passers-by.

He was articulated dead by one Dosumu Y.A, a specialist.

“The specialist said he has lost a great deal of blood, the police shoot him in the head,” she said.

The perished was depicted as a capable dad of three who never had any issues with cops before they shot him.

Be that as it may, the police denied knowing Chinyere.

Police counsel Joseph Eboseremen, handled the station official of the Ojodu Police headquarters, Lukeman Sowemimo as the safeguard observer.

Sowemimo said he drafted men to the Ojodu territory on October 21 on the grounds that “hooligans were assaulting the region, including the police headquarters” adding that he didn’t have the foggiest idea about the supposed shooter.

At the point when shown the shot brought before the board by the pathologist, Lukeman said the “slug is from gun.”

“The distinction among gun and a rifle is that gun can just execute at a short proximity while rifle can murder from any distance.

“I’m not a ballistician however with the experience as a versatile man, in the event that I see a gun ammo, I can separate it from an AK 47 ammo,” he said.

He anyway conceded that cops convey guns.