A 29 year-old motorcyclist identified as Jericho Goa Suahgonlah has been killed after a fist fight between he and a street vendor in Sanniquellie City over LRD$5.00 (US$0.025).
Liberia public Radio’s correspondent in the area said the incident happened on May 13, 2020.
According to an eye witness who was on the scene, the incident started when the late Suahgonlah has gone to do a minute cellphone transfer from street vendor identified as Clinton Zuweh popularly known as (Dada) at the Yekepa parking around the OAU monument in Sanniquellie when he asked Clinton to do him a transfer of five minutes for twenty five Liberian dollars.
Patrick Cooper, an eyewitness told LPR reporter that after the transferred of the minutes, Jericho Goa Suahgonlah give Clinton LRD$ 100.00 (US$.050) requesting for his LRD $75.00 balance, but Clinton (Dada) gave victim Suahgonlah LRD $ 70.00 (US$0.35) change instead of the LRD $75.00 something Suahgonlah considered as an act of criminality on the part of vender Clinton (Dada).
Eye witness Cooper further narrated that Suahgonlah further asked for his balance LRD$5.00 (US$.0025.00) change which Clinton (Dada) denied and resulted into verbal exchange between the two and later extended into a fist fight.
Cooper further explained that during the fight, Clinton aged 18 older brother Preston Zuweh age 23 popularly known as Panamo came in to rescue his brother and stabbed Jericho three times on his neck and back with a knife and a broken piece of glass and escaped the sense.
The two perpetrators were later arrested in the Gono Town Community in Sanniquellie and beaten by angry crowd but were rescued by Police officers and taken to the E & J Hospital in Ganta for treatment.
Jericho Goa Suahgonlah was rushed to the G. W. Harley Hospital in Sanniquellie for treatment and was later pronounced dead by Doctors upon arrival.
Following the pronouncement of his death, angry citizens took to the street of Sanniquellie after 3:00PM violating the government mandate and set ablaze a house belonging to the father of the alleged perpetrators Clinton (Dada) and Preston (Panamo) but the fire was crunched by locals around.
Speaking to reporters, the Assistant Commissioner of Police for Nimba police Detachment Augustine Leo Warrie called on aggrieved family and sympathizers of Jericho to exercise restraint, as justice will be served in the case.
Col. Warrie asserted that mob justice will not be the surest way to the situation, cautioning everyone to remain calm as police proceed with preliminary investigation adding that due diligence will be given to both the victim and the perpetrators to allow the doers to have their days in court.
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