Nigerian Professor kills Wife, Self in USA: A Nigerian professor of English and Literature who is also a respected poet, Dubem Okafor is dead. He died last Sunday in the United States after shooting his wife Cheryl.
Reports from the US have it that Okafor, 64, a cousin to the late poet, Christopher Okigbo apparently in pain his wife had left him a few days earlier, arranged to meet her at his sister’s Reading Home, Pennsylvania, where he shot her several times and himself once in the head at 3:45 p.m. Sunday, local police said.
According to the police, a small-caliber handgun was found near the bodies at the scene of the incident. The Berks County coroner declared her death a homicide and his death a suicide.
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Chukwudubem A. Okafor, 64, an associate professor of English at Kutztown University, was said to have shot his wife, Cheryl V., 37, who was an artist, several times Sunday afternoon and turned the gun on himself shortly after they arrived separately at the home of his sister, Patricia Ofilin, in the 300 block of Pear Street, investigators said.
The news Nigerian Professor Kills wife was first seen on Maduka Chinemelum Ogwueleka’s wall on Facebook.
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