A suspected mentally challenged young man has allegedly murdered a 69-year-old Francis Quarm at Kansaworado, a suburb of Sekondi-Takoradi in Western Region.
The suspect, who was said to have been behaving strangely in recent times, allegedly stormed the house of the deceased with a machete, forced his way into the deceased’s room and butchered him.
Paulina Quarm, a daughter of the deceased who narrated the incident to Connect FM’s Paa Kwesi Simpson, added that her father was asleep when the suspect forcibly entered his room and attacked him without any provocation.
“My father is a landlord. We heard one of the tenants shouting for help early in the morning. The suspect had broken into his room and started attacking him with a machete”, 3 news.com quoted her as saying.
According to Paulina, though the shout for help drew a lot of people to the scene, nobody was able to intervene because the suspect looked too aggressive.
The Assembly Member for the area, George Cobbinah who corroborated Paulina’s account, disclosed that the suspect has been behaving strangely in recent times.
According to him, the suspect, before he attacked and killed the deceased in cold blood, attacked his own mother and injured her in the process, a situation that led to the mother being hospitalised.
Mr Cobbinah added; “He also stormed a church with a machete and threatened the congregation. We tried capturing him after those incidents, but he disappeared—until this morning, when we received the devastating news of Mr. Quarm’s death”
However, he was eventually arrested by the police after he murdered Francis Quarm who is popularly known as Gabo.
NAAB/KA
