Elijah Ofori, a 55-year-old hunter at Elijakrom, a village near Enchi in the Western Region has been arrested by the police for allegedly shooting and killing his 60 year-old fiancée after suspecting her of dating another man in the area.
The lifeless body of the deceased, Cecilia Adokatsi, who lived at a village called Sunka, on the Elubo-Enchi road, has been deposited at the Enchi Government Hospital morgue pending autopsy.
Superitendent Peter Lennox Aidoo, the Enchi District Police Commander who disclosed this toDAILY GUIDE, indicated that the suspect and the deceased were initially friends but decided to marry about four months ago.
The police commander noted that because the two were not living together, they used to visit each other in their villages.
He indicated that some time ago, the woman visited the suspect and in the course of their conversation, the man alleged that the woman was dating another man, and this led to verbal exchanges between them.
In the process the suspect told the woman that he would go to her village and collect everything he had bought for her, an intention he truly carried out.
According to the District Police Commander, a friend of the suspect, one Yaw Andoh who heard about the misunderstanding decided to help them settle the matter amicably.
So on Saturday, March 5, 2016, at about 5:30pm, Yaw Andoh with Cecilia Adokatsi and her two grandchildren aged 18 and 14, went to the suspect to solve the fracas.
After successfully settling the dispute between them, Yaw Andoh, Cecilia and her grandchildren decided to return home, to Sunka.
As they were leaving, the suspect, Elija Ofori told them that he was also going for hunting in a forest near the fiancée’s village so he went for his gun and followed them.
Supt Aidoo said upon reaching the woman’s village near the forest where the suspect claimed he was going for hunting, he allegedly shot and killed Cecilia Adokatsi from the back.
Supt Aidoo indicated that on realising that the woman had died, the suspect took to his heels and hid at a nearby village called Kwahu.
He was later arrested by some of the community folks who had heard of the incident and handed over to the police.
The District Police Commander told DAILY GUIDE that the suspect was put before a District Magistrate Court in Enchi and was remanded into police custody to assist in investigations and would reappear on March 22, 2016.
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