13-year old student murdered in cold blood

Palpable anxiety has gripped Umuagaragu, Enyiogugu community in Aboh
Mbaise local council area of Imo State, following the gruesome murder of
Uzoma Okerenkwo, a 13-year old JSS 2 student of Logara High School, Ngor
Okpala, by unknown assassins.
Fear and apprehension enveloped the entire community soon after the lifeless
body of Uzoma was discovered along a bush path close to his home.
A villager, who spoke on strict grounds of anonymity, told Vanguard that
"Uzoma's throat was mercilessly slashed by the assassins".
One of the stories associated with this gory tale was that Uzoma was last
seen in company of two other boys before his lifeless body was discovered in
the bush.
When Vanguard visited the home of the deceased's family compound, his
widowed mother was looking completely dazed and unable to speak on the
issue.
However, late Uzoma's uncle, Chief Donatus Okerenkwo, explained that the
deceased had gone to the market earlier in the day to buy some food stuff for
his mother and kola nuts for him.
"News filtered in that there was a corpse in a nearby bush. On getting to the
scene, we found out that the reported unidentified corpse was that of Uzoma",
Chief Okerenkwo recounted.
Answering a question, the aggrieved man reasoned that his cousin could have
been killed elsewhere but carefully brought close to the family home by the
assassins.
"There is no visible sign of a struggle between the slain boy and the
murderers. The blood clot around his neck sadly tells the sad tale of how the
boy was slain", Okerenkwo recounted.
Vanguard gathered at press time that a suspect was already helping the police
to unravel the circumstances that led to Uzoma's death, while his remains has
been moved to an undisclosed morgue, awaiting autopsy.