Ebenezer Kofi Okyere
A police officer, Corporal Ebenezer Kofi Okyere, attached to the Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Unit of the Ashanti Regional Police Command, has reportedly killed himself after he allegedly became emotionally distraught over a paternity issue.
The 33-year-old policeman reportedly took his life in the early morning of yesterday at his private apartment at Tafo, a suburb of Kumasi.
Her girlfriend was said to have visited him a day before the tragic incident.
Sources told DAILY GUIDE that the cop died from a traumatic wound after a shot in the throat with his AK 47 assault rifle, which produced a booming sound that attracted a sizable crowd of neighbours and co-tenants to his room, as his girlfriend, a supposed Allied Science student, ran out of the apartment in a panic-stricken manner.
Corporal Okyere reportedly started dating his girlfriend about six years ago after parting ways with a certain lady whom he reportedly had a child with.
Since he was off-duty on Tuesday, DAILY GUIDE learned that Cpl Okyere invited his girlfriend (name withheld) over to Kumasi to spend the night with him, which she obliged.
Around 6:30 am the following day (yesterday), whilst he was preparing to go to work, the cop was said to have received a telephone call from his ex-girlfriend, who purportedly told him that he was not the father of the child.
Whilst his girlfriend was trying to iron his uniform for him, Cpl Okyere at that point, was heard threatening to kill himself to end it all.
Lo and behold, the police officer allegedly dashed for his AK 47 rifle and reportedly pointed the nozzle at his throat as his girlfriend rushed out to call for intervention.
His remains were taken to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital by his colleagues who were invited to the residence after the tragic incident.
At the time of filing this report, the police command was still tight-lipped over the incident, with the excuse that it was yet to inform the family members of what had happened.
From Ernest Kofi Adu, Kumasi