Police in New Orleans have grabbed a man from Nigeria living in the United States on claims he knifed his elderly dad and hurt two women thought to be his sisters.
Chukwuebuka Eweni faces charges of second-degree murder and two counts of attempted second-degree murder after the attack on 11 November. Local reports say the dead man, Samuel Eweni, was 75 and taught computer science at a nearby university.
Cops got a call around 10pm about a possible killing in a flat on Pebble Street. When they arrived, they found the older man not breathing from a stab wound, plus the two women with cuts. Paramedics rushed the women to a hospital, where they are mending.
After digging into the case, detectives pinned Eweni as the attacker and got a warrant for his arrest. They caught him in Jefferson Parish, where he was under guard at a medical spot getting checked out.
One news report, not yet checked by other sources, quotes family saying Eweni has a mental health issue but never lashed out before. It claims he went to his treatment clinic right after the stabbing like nothing was wrong. Staff moved him to another place, and officers tracked him down there.
The coroner’s office will name the dead man and say how he died once tests and family notices wrap up. A later update from police lists the charges as first-degree murder and two tries at second-degree murder.
This marks another time a Nigerian in the US has been nabbed for a killing. Just weeks ago, a woman from Nigeria got charged with murder after her nine-year-old girl died from heat in a locked car in Texas.
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