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The Ashanti Regional Police have made a headway in arresting the chief suspect in the murder of a 13-year-old Junior High School pupil. This brings to five the number of suspects arrested in connection with the murder. An unknown assailant murdered Isaac Akwasi Opoku and inflicted machete wounds on the mother, Mrs. Felicity Opoku and his sister, Rita Opoku at their Abuakwa residence in Kumasi. Following this, the Abuakwa police arrested Kwadwo Kru, 52, Daniel Appiah 60; Pastor James Akwasi Appau, 42, and Kofi Adjei, 64. The new suspect was arrested through the vigilance of the people of Abuakwa. Speaking in an interview on Peace FM, Sampson K. Nyamekye, a correspondent indicated that the suspect; Akwasi Abraham was arrested by a civilian at his hideout at IPT, near the Kumasi Campus of the University of Education, Winneba on Friday at about 5:30 pm. He was then handed over to the Abuakwa police. At the time of the arrest, Abraham was wielding a sharp machete, but it has not yet been confirmed whether that was the same machete he used in killing Isaac Opoku. Meanwhile, the mother, Felicity Opoku has been discharged from the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH).