The mother and son of a fleeing shooting suspect have reportedly lost their lives in a melee at Evwreni, Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State. <\/p>\n
It was gathered that the mother and son were killed in a reprisal attack after one person was allegedly shot dead during an argument.<\/p>\n
Though, sources said some members of the community\u2019s vigilante team were involved in the incident, the state Police Command dismissed such assertion.<\/p>\n
A source in the community, who spoke in confidence, said: \u201cTwo vigilantes had a misunderstanding and had exchange of words. Nobody knew what happened; one of them shot the other one and he died on the spot.\u201d<\/p>\n
Saying that the suspect who, he said, is an indigene of a neighboring community fled the area after killing his colleague, the source said some persons \u201cchased the mother of the suspect, poured petrol on her and set her ablaze. They also used the son of the suspect to hit the ground and he died\u201d.<\/p>\n
The Police Public Relations Officer of the State Command, Mr Bright Edafe, said the incident had nothing to do with vigilante, adding that the police were not aware of any reprisal attack.<\/p>\n
He:: \u201cFor now, it is only one person that the suspect allegedly killed that they claim that made them went to retaliate. We don\u2019t know if there is retaliation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The mother and son of a fleeing shooting suspect have reportedly lost their lives in a melee at Evwreni, Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State. It was gathered that the mother and son were killed in a reprisal attack after one person was allegedly shot dead during an argument. Though, sources said some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":193007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"custom","single_blog_custom":"211693","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"single-left","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"floatbottom","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"0","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":{"override_bookmark_button":"0","override_show_bookmark_button":"0"},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[966,27,20429,2107],"class_list":["post-227129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","tag-delta","tag-police","tag-reprisal-attack","tag-vigilante"],"yoast_head":"\n