The Liberia National Police (LNP) confirmed that the man shot dead by armed robbers on Tuesday afternoon was actually a Judicial worker and not the Fula businessman.
The police, through its spokesperson Moses Carter, though failed to give details of the incident, promised to speak on the situation in subsequent time.
However, the police identified the deceased judicial worker as Samuel King who was trying to prevent the robbers from hijacking the Fula businessman around the Mesurado Compound, adjacent the LIPFOCO Mattress Factory on the Bushrod Island which in a Kehkeh.
“The armed men intercepted the keh-keh at the front view of the Mesurado Compound and it was during the fight that Samuel King was shot by the robbers using a single barrel gun,” said an eye witness.
The bystander continued, “And after committing the crime, the perpetrators placed their guns in a guitar bag and escaped before the Anti-Robbery Unit of the Liberia National Police could arrived on the scene.”
Another witness stated that the “keh-keh” rider managed to escape, while the victim, upon his rejection by the Redemption Hospital due to his critical condition, was later pronounced dead at a local health facility on the Bushrod Island.
