Police investigate Devtraco area tragedy
The Tema Regional Police Command has begun investigations into the murder of three persons by a Lance Corporal, L/Cpl Wilfred Dodzi Amuzu, attached to the Rapid Development Force (RDF) in Tema and the circumstances leading to the policeman committing suicide.
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The Public Relations Officer of the command, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Ms Juliana Obeng, in an interview with the Daily Graphic, said a team of crime scene investigators from the police had visited the scene to gather evidence.
Meanwhile, the wife of the policeman, Ms Rapha Iddrisu, is receiving counselling.
Ms Iddrisu is still trying to come to terms with the death of her children and her mother.
The 29-year-old widow escaped death narrowly last Monday night.
She had gone on a visit to Ashaiman to seek financial assistance only to return home later to find that her husband had visited the temporary abode she and her family were occupying at New Dawhenya and killed her mother and her two children with an AK 47 assault rifle.
Lance Corporal Amuzu, 32, with the Tema Regional Rapid Deployment Force (RDF) Unit, had booked the rifle from his unit but failed to proceed on duty and rather went home to wipe out his family.
He shot and killed his mother-in-law, Mary Quarshie, 62, his one-and-a-half-year-old son, Elikem Amuzu, and three-month-old baby, Xorlali Amuzu, before shooting himself in an uncompleted building located between the Devtraco Courts Estates and the Kpone Affordable Housing Estates.
Before committing the heinous act, Lance Corporal Amuzu pulled his two-year-old stepson aside and shot the rest of the family.
Grief
A grief stricken and distraught Ms Iddrisu told journalists at the Devtraco Courts Police Station that in December last year she and her husband had series of marital misunderstandings.
According to her, her husband accused her of being a witch and also threatened to kill her. She said on one occasion, her husband attacked and slapped her and tried to stab her with a knife and a screwdriver over the same allegation of witchcraft.
She said out of fear and constant threats on her life, she was forced to confess that she was a witch.
Ms Iddrisu said she later lodged a complaint of assault with the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) at the Tema Main Harbour Police Station where she was advised to separate from her husband for a while.
She said her husband was asked to provide money for the upkeep of the children.
She said she and her mother and the two children relocated to New Dawhenya, but her husband traced them and continued to harass and accuse her of infidelity.
Relocation
Ms Iddrisu disclosed that she moved out of her previous shelter to a new place last Saturday, just to avoid meeting her husband, but unknown to her, her husband had set spies on her who fed him with information.
She said last Monday, while she had gone to Ashaiman to visit her sister to seek her help in finding a new place to rent and also for money for groceries, her husband visited the family in the house and killed them.
“I was shocked,” she said, while tears dropped from her eyes, adding that she had nobody and did not know what to do.
