A student of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba (AAUA), Olubodun Sanni, 21, has been nabbed by Ondo police command over the killing of one Miss Adekunle Adebisi Ifeoluwa
Adekunle, who was a 300-level student of the Department of Economics, AAUA was found dead on February 2, 2024 in her room at an off-campus house.
A neighbour of the deceased who speaks on the ground of anonymity, said that Adekunle was found in a pool of blood after being stabbed by unknown person.
The Ondo state police command through her effort has however revealed the identity of the “unknown” person who allegedly stabbed Adekunle Adebisi Ifeoluwa to death and stole her iphone XR as Olubodun sanni.
Ondo police commissioner, Abayomi Peter Oladipo, who disclosed this while parading some suspects, said the police through investigation discovered that the deceased phone was missing after the murder.
The commissioner further said that the the phone was traced through the aid of modern technology to one 21-,year_old Sanni who live in the same compound with the deceased .
He said: “The recovered phone led to further interrogation of the suspect who gave details of what happened in his confessional statement.”
According to the police source” the suspect confessed even before her parents that on that ill-fated day, he approached the victim to transfer some film from her telephone to his iPad.
” The unsuspecting female student obliged him but didn’t allow him into her room. She told the suspect that her telephone battery was low.
” The suspect them excused himself to come back later with his power bank to charge the victims telephone.
” He came back to the victim’s room very late and was allowed into the room where he grabbed the victim by the neck and stabbed her in the chest with a knife he brought along.
” The suspect then took the victim’s telephone, destroyed her SIM card and inserted his own SIM card.
” Police findings showed that he would make use of the phone during the day and hid it inside an uncompleted building close to the hostel.
According to Abayomi the state commissioner, Sanni would be charged to court after the investigation is fully completed.