Scott Eguabor, a boxer from Benin City, Edo State, has fled after allegedly punching his brother-in-law, Sunday Okoro, to death.
Sunday was said to be attempting to resolve a domestic dispute between the boxer and his wife, who happened to be the deceased’s junior sister.
The incident took place on March 19, 2023, at Erie Street, off Sokponba Road in Benin City, one week after the boxer allegedly assaulted a Pastor over a security fee.
Eguabor, a Boxing Coach in the Edo State Ministry of Sports Council and the Head of the State Security Network in Erie and its environs, allegedly fled his home after committing the crime, just one month after the victim’s wife gave birth.
Eyewitness Osahon Okoro-Obaraye stated that Eguabor severely injured Okoro’s eyes and nostrils.
He explained that Sunday, who could barely mutter, suddenly slumped and passed away, and that the alleged murderer fled immediately upon sensing danger.
Okoro-Obaraye recalled Eguabor harassing residents of Erie and the surrounding area with guns while dressed in the toga of the Edo State Vigilante Network, Aruosa Command, near the intersection of Igbesamwan street.
Okoro-Obaraye, who was upset, also revealed that after collapsing, he drove Sunday to several hospitals in Benin for immediate medical care, but Sunday was later determined to be dead by the medical staff.
He claimed that Eguabor also dealt with a number of neighbors, including a priest who was saved by members of his church after being assaulted by the suspect.
Okoro-Obaraye claimed that when the suspect’s wife got into an argument with her husband late on Saturday, March 18, 2023, she called her older brother, who lives on Upper Sokponba Road, to come to her aid.
