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Diasporia News of Tuesday, 28 December 2010

Source: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

U.S. based Ghanaian kills estrange wife, her boyfriend

KENNESAW, Ga, USA -- A US-based Ghanaian man has been charged with shooting two people to death early Saturday.

The bodies of Fatoumata Ntiamoah, 27, and Mohamed Zaine, 32, were found by Cobb County police around 4 a.m.

Investigators later arrested and charged Michael Abrah Ntiamoah, 32, with two counts of murder, aggravated assault and burglary.

Michael and Fatoumata Ntiamoah (Guinea national) were married at some point, Officer Joe Hernandez told the AJC on Sunday.

Fatoumata Ntiamoah was in a relationship with Mohamed Zaine, and they were living together when they were killed, Hernandez said.

Cobb police said they went to Bexley Place around 4 a.m. after someone called 911. Authorities found the couple shot to death inside the residence.

Michael Ntiamoah made his first court appearance Sunday morning and is being held at the Cobb County Jail without bond, .

Ntiamoah worked as a uniformed officer for U.S. Customs and Border Protection at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, Virginia Dabbs, a spokeswoman for the agency, told the AJC.
Address records show Michael Ntiamoah had lived in Cobb County since October 2006 after moving from New Jersey.

Background Information

Michael got burnt in a vehicle accident, in Ghana, when he was about two years-old.

The estranged wife is from Guinea. Michael married and brought her to the U S. She tricked him into bringing her boyfriend to the US, thinking he was his brother.

When they divorced, She kicked him from his home and lived there with the "brother" boyfriend.