Gunmen kill 68-year-old man in Tema

Tema, June 25, GNA - Gun men on Tuesday evening shot a 68-year-old man at close range on the forehead killing him instantly in his car at his residence at Tema Community 11. The victim, Mr Solomon Lamptey George, a former Manager of Total Filling Station at La, met his death the same day he handed over the operation of the filling station to a new management. He was shot by one of the two men who attacked him at about 2000 hours.

Superintendent of Police Samuel Kofi Tetteh, Community Two District Police Commander who briefed the Ghana News Agency on Wednesday, said a police patrol team saw Mr George's body in a pool of blood in his Opel Vectra saloon car in his house. Mr Tetteh said 58-year-old Madam Beatrice Dorwunah, wife of the deceased, told the police that her husband drove home with her from work that day.

When they got to the gate Madam Dorwunah alighted and opened the gate for her husband to drive in. Immediately Mr George drove into the house the two men entered. One of them was holding a machete and he charged on the woman, threatening to butcher her should she make noise. He said the other one who was holding a gun approached the victim in the car, demanded money from Mr George and shot him at close range on the forehead when the deceased told him he did not have any money on him. Mr Tetteh said the two left in a car parked about 50 meters from the house amidst gun shots after the one with the gun ordered his colleague with the cutlass in the Hausa language "mute" meaning 'let's go'.