20-year-old man, phone snatcher stabbed yet-to-be-identified woman to death at Kasuwa-Dere in the Gwagwalada area of the FCT.
The spokesperson of the state police command, Mariam Yusuf, who disclosed this in a statement said the suspect, Danladi Abubakar was arrested by police detectives from Gwagwalada following an intelligence report.
The statement in part reads; “The FCT Police command has arrested one suspect for culpable homicide in the Kasuwa-Dere, Gwagwalada area.
Acting on credible intelligence, the suspect, one Danladi Abubakar, 20, was arrested by police detectives from the Gwagwalada Division for the gruesome murder of a yet-to-be identified middle-aged woman.
The suspect, who was identified by another victim, confessed to being a member of a notorious phone snatching syndicate operating in the Gwagwalada area.
Exhibits recovered are one sharp knife used for stabbing the deceased and one Tecno phone belonging to the late woman.”