{"id":65598,"date":"2025-05-11T22:45:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T22:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=65598"},"modified":"2025-05-11T22:45:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T22:45:53","slug":"abuja-pastor-shoots-two-officers-flees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/11\/abuja-pastor-shoots-two-officers-flees\/","title":{"rendered":"Abuja: Pastor Shoots Two Officers, Flees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A quiet night in Sabon Iddo, Abuja turned tragic when two immigration officers on patrol were shot by a man identified as Pastor Darlington, who allegedly mistook them for armed robbers.<\/p>\n<p>The late-night shooting, which occurred around 10 p.m. over the weekend, left Officers Oyomide Zion and Hakeem Mashood critically injured. A third officer, Uduk James, managed to raise an alarm, triggering an urgent response from the Iddo Police Division.<\/p>\n<p>Both injured officers were rushed to the Nigerian Air Force Base Hospital in Abuja for emergency treatment. Their condition remains undisclosed.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, known locally as Pastor Darlington, fled the scene immediately after the shooting. Authorities say a full-scale manhunt is underway to locate and apprehend him.<\/p>\n<p>The incident has sparked outrage and confusion in the community, with many questioning how a routine patrol turned into a near-fatal encounter.<\/p>\n<p>Police are urging anyone with information on the suspect&#8217;s whereabouts to come forward, as the search intensifies across the Federal Capital Territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu\u00a0 A quiet night in Sabon Iddo, Abuja turned tragic when two immigration officers on patrol were shot by a man identified as Pastor Darlington, who allegedly mistook them for armed robbers. The late-night shooting, which occurred around 10 p.m. over the weekend, left Officers Oyomide Zion and Hakeem Mashood critically injured. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":65599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65598","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=65598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65600,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65598\/revisions\/65600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}