Sergeant Emmanuel Amede
The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service are making frantic efforts to investigate circumstances under which a 44-year-old police officer, shot and killed himself at dawn yesterday at Nungua, Accra.
Sergeant Emmanuel Amede, who is attached to the Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Unit in Accra, fired at his throat with an AK47 assault rifle in his room at the Nungua Barracks.
The body has since been deposited at the Police Hospital morgue pending autopsy.
Information available to DAILY GUIDE indicates that on Saturday evening, Sergeant Amede, with service number 34586, booked the AK 47 riffle for guard duty but went home instead.
Unfortunately, he went to sleep for reasons best known to him.
Some few hours later at about 2:30 am, he suddenly woke up and ordered his wife and children to vacate the room and leave him alone in the room before he shoots them to death.
The wife immediately woke up the children for fear of their lives, rushed them out and called their neighbours for help.
However, Sergeant Amede discharged the bullets in the AK 47 assault rifle into his throat and slumped onto the floor in a pool of blood before the neighbours could arrive at the scene.
Homicide Unit of the CID Headquarters was called to the scene and the body was conveyed to the Police Hospital pending investigations into the case.
By Vincent Kubi