The people of Umuokiri Nvosi community in Isiala Ngwa South council area of Abia State could not behold the gory sight of a couple murdered by their teenage son.
The victims: Jonah and Gold Amanze, aged between 70 and 80, were said to had gone to bed Saturday night, when their son machete them to death Saturday last week.
A resident of the community told Vanguard that the mentally ill teenager had been threatening people in the community. Two weeks ago, he allegedly inflicted machete cuts on a passer-by who almost bled to death before being taken to a clinic in the area.
“The boy has been suffering from mental illness. He has been a terror to residents of this community. About two weeks ago, he inflicted machete cuts on a passerby who almost bled to death. Yesterday, we woke to the cries of neighbours that he had killed his father and mother at about midnight and fled,” the resident narrated.
The Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Abia State Command, DSP Geoffrey Ogbonna, said the incident was yet to be reported to the Police.
