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Gunmen kill 68-year-old man in Tema
Tema, June 25, Ghanadot/GNA - Gun men on
Tuesday evening shot a 68-year-old man at close range on the
forehead killing him instantly in his car at his residence
at Tema Community 11.
The victim, Mr Solomon Lamptey George, a former Manager of
Total Filling Station at La, met his death the same day he
handed over the operation of the filling station to a new
management.
He was shot by one of the two men who attacked him at about
2000 hours.
Superintendent of Police Samuel Kofi Tetteh, Community Two
District Police Commander who briefed the Ghana News Agency
on Wednesday, said a police patrol team saw Mr George's body
in a pool of blood in his Opel Vectra saloon car in his
house.
Mr Tetteh said 58-year-old Madam Beatrice Dorwunah, wife of
the deceased, told the police that her husband drove home
with her from work that day.
When they got to the gate Madam Dorwunah alighted and opened
the gate for her husband to drive in.
Immediately Mr George drove into the house the two men
entered. One of them was holding a machete and he charged on
the woman, threatening to butcher her should she make noise.
He said the other one who was holding a gun approached the
victim in the car, demanded money from Mr George and shot
him at close range on the forehead when the deceased told
him he did not have any money on him.
Mr Tetteh said the two left in a car parked about 50 meters
from the house amidst gun shots after the one with the gun
ordered his colleague with the cutlass in the Hausa language
"mute" meaning 'let's go'.
GNA
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