By Eberechi Obinagwam
A forensics pathology, Dr. Oluwaseun Oladimeji Williams, has confirmed to the court that Kolade Johnson died as a result of six gun shots injuries.
Oluwaseun, testifying before Justice Adenike J Coker of Lagos High Court, Ikeja, said that according to autopsy findings from the head to toe, the diseased died of six gun shot injuries, and two non-gun shot injuries, “which brings us to a total of eight injuries.”
He explained that they found four injuries at the back of the lower right thigh, two in the heart, one on his scrutum, and one at his right hand.
He stated that the injuries suggested that it was a Pull and pull, that is to say, it was a front and back (Exterior and Interior) gun shot, an effect in the lower limb and a destruction of the right femoral of multiple gun shot injuries.
“Our key finding was the destruction of the tissue; they were botany destructed,” he stated.
He further stated that they were not able to recover any bullets but they were fractures suggesting that it was a firearm miscreant which was identified through dark burnt edges.
Previous report had it that Kolade Johnson died in a viewing centre in front of Pentecostal Mission, Redeemers Road, Magboro, at around 4:30 in the morning, on the 31st of March, 2019.
He was aged 35. He was shot by a dismissed Police officer, Ogunyemi Olalekan, who worked with Special Anti Cultism Squad before his dismiss.
Upon hearing the defence counsel’s cross-examination, that the miscreant the doctor reported could be a sharp object that penetrated in his body as they could be other miscreant outside a bullet, Justice Adenike adjourned the matter to 19th March, 2020 for further hearing.