{"id":59505,"date":"2025-01-12T23:17:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T23:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=59505"},"modified":"2025-01-12T23:17:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T23:17:03","slug":"horror-in-orozo-man-caught-with-lovers-severed-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/12\/horror-in-orozo-man-caught-with-lovers-severed-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Horror in Orozo: Man Caught with lover\u2019s Severed Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Alexis Uchendu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Residents of Orozo, a quiet suburb of Abuja, were left in shock today after a young man was caught carrying his girlfriend\u2019s severed head in a bag, allegedly for ritual purposes.<br \/>\nThe incident occurred near a church during Sunday service when the suspect\u2019s suspicious behavior drew attention.<br \/>\nAccording to eyewitnesses, a worshipper noticed the man loitering near a church window and raised the alarm. Congregants interrupted their service, confronted him, and made the gruesome discovery.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-59507\" src=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG-20250113-WA0001-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG-20250113-WA0001-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG-20250113-WA0001.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><br \/>\nDisturbing images and videos, shared online by social media user Caleb Umaru II, captured the chilling moment.<br \/>\nUmaru wrote, &#8220;I got the shock of my life as we apprehended a Yahoo ritualist with a human head\u2014his girlfriend\u2019s\u2014inside a nylon close to our church during service. He admitted the rest of her body is still in his house.&#8221;<br \/>\nDuring his confession, the suspect reportedly confirmed the killing, maintaining an unsettling calmness that added to the horror.<br \/>\nThe brutal act has thrown the Orozo community into turmoil, with residents struggling to come to terms with the gruesome reality.<br \/>\nAuthorities have since taken the suspect into custody, and police have launched a full investigation.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, residents and church members remain traumatized by the shocking crime that has shattered their once-peaceful neighborhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alexis Uchendu Residents of Orozo, a quiet suburb of Abuja, were left in shock today after a young man was caught carrying his girlfriend\u2019s severed head in a bag, allegedly for ritual purposes. The incident occurred near a church during Sunday service when the suspect\u2019s suspicious behavior drew attention. According to eyewitnesses, a worshipper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":59506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-59505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59508,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59505\/revisions\/59508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}