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From: Taiwo FASORANTI <tf...@hotmail.com>
Date: 19 August 2010 04:42
Subject: [NaijaPolitics] Nigerian professor, Dubem Okafor kills wife, self in US
To: Naija Politics <naijap...@yahoogroups.com>
One of Nigeria’s most respected poet and professor of English and Literature, Dubem Okafor is dead. He died last Sunday in the United States after shooting his wife Cheryl 37.
Reports and calls from the US say Okafor, 64, cousin to the late
poet, Christopher Okigbo apparently distraught his wife had left him a
few days earlier, arranged to meet her at his sister’s Reading home,
Pennsylvania, where he shot her several times and himself once in the
head at 3:45 p.m. Sunday, police said.
A small-caliber handgun was found near the bodies, police said. The Berks County coroner declared her death a homicide and his death a suicide.
Chukwudubem A. Okafor, 64, an associate professor of English at Kutztown University, was said to have shot his wife, Cheryl V., 37, who was an artist, several times Sunday afternoon and turned the gun on himself shortly after they arrived separately at the home of his sister, Patricia Ofilin, in the 300 block of Pear Street, investigators said.
From: Taiwo FASORANTI <tf...@hotmail.com>
Date: 19 August 2010 04:42
Subject: [NaijaPolitics] Nigerian professor, Dubem Okafor kills wife, self in US
To: Naija Politics <naijap...@yahoogroups.com>
Nigerian professor, Dubem Okafor kills wife, self in US
Aug 18, 2010 By Uduma Kalu & Adekunle AliyuOne of Nigeria’s most respected poet and professor of English and Literature, Dubem Okafor is dead. He died last Sunday in the United States after shooting his wife Cheryl 37.
Chukwudubem Okafor and his wife Cheryl
A small-caliber handgun was found near the bodies, police said. The Berks County coroner declared her death a homicide and his death a suicide.
Chukwudubem A. Okafor, 64, an associate professor of English at Kutztown University, was said to have shot his wife, Cheryl V., 37, who was an artist, several times Sunday afternoon and turned the gun on himself shortly after they arrived separately at the home of his sister, Patricia Ofilin, in the 300 block of Pear Street, investigators said.
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