{"id":64134,"date":"2025-04-12T13:25:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T13:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=64134"},"modified":"2025-04-12T13:25:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T13:25:32","slug":"ondo-police-hunt-down-murder-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/12\/ondo-police-hunt-down-murder-suspect\/","title":{"rendered":"Ondo Police Hunt Down Murder Suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Ondo State Police Command has arrested a man identified as Ijalo, the prime suspect in the brutal murder of Alhaji Awoyinka Sumaila, a prominent building materials dealer in Ore, Odigbo Local Government Area.<\/p>\n<p>Ijalo was apprehended on April 10 in Osogbo, Osun State, following what the police described as a discreet and painstaking investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The command\u2019s spokesperson, DSP Ayanlade Olushola, confirmed the arrest in a statement released on Friday in Akure.<\/p>\n<p>Sumaila was gunned down on March 1 at his residence opposite Caring Heart Mega School in the Idi Mango area of Ore, sending shockwaves through the local community.<\/p>\n<p>Olushola revealed that police operatives recovered a locally made pistol, believed to have been used in the killing, as well as criminal charms during a search of the suspect\u2019s residence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The arrest was the result of an intense manhunt which led our operatives back to Ore,&#8221; Olushola stated, assuring the public that the command remains committed to flushing out criminal elements from the state.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest marks a significant breakthrough in the ongoing efforts to bring Sumaila\u2019s killers to justice and restore public confidence in the security of the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu The Ondo State Police Command has arrested a man identified as Ijalo, the prime suspect in the brutal murder of Alhaji Awoyinka Sumaila, a prominent building materials dealer in Ore, Odigbo Local Government Area. Ijalo was apprehended on April 10 in Osogbo, Osun State, following what the police described as a discreet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":64135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-64134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64134","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=64134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64136,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64134\/revisions\/64136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}