Victim Tackles 3-Man Gang, Arrests One with Pistol

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A brave victim has successfully tackled a three-man robbery gang in Lagos.

The victim, identified simply as Desmond, managed to apprehend a member of the gang and dispossessed him of a double-barrelled pistol.

Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal, told journalists that the gang had attacked Desmond and his girlfriend, Kate, while they were returning from work and collected Kate’s phone at gun point.

Edgal said the incident took place on Close 26, Satellite Town, Ijegun, around 10pm, on August 13.

He said as the robbers were about to escape on a waiting motorbike, Desmond tackled them and managed to pull down one. while the other two escaped with the stolen phone.

Eyewitnesses, who had earlier refrained from intervening because the gang were armed, assisted Desmond to overpower the robber, who was later identified as Michael David.

The text of the statement by Edgal read: “On August 13, 2017, at about 10pm, one Demond and Kate, both residents of Satellite Town, Ijegun, Lagos, were on their way home when they were attacked at Close 26, Satellite Town, by three armed robbers with one locally-made double-barrelled pistol.

“The suspects ordered them to surrender their phones or get shot. They dispossessed them of a mobile phone, valued at N39,000, and jumped on their standby motorcycle. But the man summoned courage and dragged one of them, Michael David, down from the motorcycle and with the help of passersby, the suspect was arrested and his gun taken away from him. The two other robbers escaped with the stolen property.”

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