The bullets on display Rita and Oduro displaying some of her injuries
A JEALOUS man, who could not contain the emotional trauma of losing his girlfriend to another man, has shot the woman and taken refuge somewhere to prevent an arrest.
Rita Oduro, the victim, was said to be in her room with her new boyfriend, one Mathias Enyan, when the jealous man (name withheld for security reasons) attacked them in a brutal fashion.
A police report said the suspect forcibly broke into Rita’s room at Abusuakuruwa in Kumasi at 9pm on March 14, 2025, and robbed Rita’s new boyfriend of his money and other items and fled.
Few minutes later, the suspect, who is currently on the run, returned to the scene and fired series of gunshots through Rita’s room window, injuring his former girlfriend in the process, and fled again.
A Suame Divisional Police report, confirming the story, said “On 15/3/2025 at about 0130 hours, Suame taskforce, acting on information received from Control, proceeded to Abusuakuruwa-Kumasi.
“They met victim Rita Oduro with suspected gunshot wounds on her left thigh, left elbow and left chin. According to her, she was in her bedroom with her boyfriend, one Mathias Enyan, on 14/3/2024 at about 2100hours when her former boyfriend came and attacked them.
“That the suspect took her boyfriend’s belongings, including a sum of GH¢500.00. Suspect left and came back with a gun and fired through the window, wounding her in the process.”
The police said they found six empty shells of AAA cartridges at the crime scene, and rushed the victim to Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), where she was admitted, adding that efforts are underway to get the suspect, whose name they did not disclose, arrested.
FROM I.F. Joe Awuah, Kumasi