Police officer commits suicide at Tafo

police officer with the Central Police Station, Kumasi, has committed suicide by shooting himself.

Residents who were still in shock over the incident told Accra FM that they heard a gunshot from the room of the deceased, Kofi Owusu on Wednesday morning.

It is still not clear what led to the suicide, but one of the residents said the police officer had received a call in the early hours of today [Wednesday] right after he had asked his girlfriend to leave him room.
His girlfriend agreed and left the room, the resident said.

But immediately after she had left, a gunshot was heard from the police officer’s room.

Residents subsequently rushed to his room and found him in a chair with a gunshot wound to his neck.
They raised an alarm and some young men arrived at the scene to convey the body of the police officer to the mortuary.