{"id":450167,"date":"2017-12-26T10:34:57","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T10:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/26\/family-of-dead-17-year-old-killed-by-police-officer-to-visit-deity\/"},"modified":"2017-12-26T10:34:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T10:34:57","slug":"family-of-dead-17-year-old-killed-by-police-officer-to-visit-deity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/26\/family-of-dead-17-year-old-killed-by-police-officer-to-visit-deity\/","title":{"rendered":"Family of dead 17-year-old killed by police officer to visit deity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Tuesday, 26 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Myjoyonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2017-12-26<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/90944578.295.jpg\" alt=\"Lawrence Police\" title=\"Lawrence Police\" width=\"295\" height=\"244\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Lawrence Joe Baidoo was a final year student of the Ghana Secondary Technical School<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1514284497_353_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> The family of the 17-year-old student who was shot and killed by the police in the Western Region has threatened to consult a deity if the culprit is not brought to justice.<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence Joe Baidoo, a final year student of the Ghana Secondary Technical School (GSTS), was on his way to a pre-Christmas street jam on Friday, December 22 at Ituma, a suburb of Shama when he met his untimely death.<\/p>\n<p>He was shot by the officer known to residents as Detective Adjei Shaibu.<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence was in the company of four other friends, who are reported to have sustained various degrees of injuries.<\/p>\n<p>A reporter at Radio Shama, Nana Araba Nyanoma who reported the incident on Adom FM said the deceased and his friends did not in any way provoke the officer.<\/p>\n<p>Narrating the incident, Nana said the officer was on a motorbike, escorting a woman who was driving a saloon car.<\/p>\n<p>According to the reporter, he mistook Lawrence for an armed robber and shot at him and his friends.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were on the way when they met the deceased with his other four friends including a lady. The woman who was being escorted by the police suddenly ordered the policeman to shoot while shouting thief pointing at the deceased.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe police officer without provocation pulled the trigger and shot Lawrence and they both left the scene,\u201d Nana added.<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence\u2019s family is demanding the immediate arrest and prosecution of the officer.<\/p>\n<p>They say the officer must be made to answer for killing their child when he did no wrong.<\/p>\n<p>An uncle of the deceased, told Joy News Correspondent, Inna Thalia that if the police fail to take action, the family will be forced to seek answers from elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am pleading with authorities of Ghana Police and government to help us seek justice. The matter should not be taken lightly simply because the suspect is a cop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we don\u2019t get justice from the police, we will use other means, including, consulting a deity,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Western regional police command says the suspect has been arrested and in custody.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 63 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Tuesday, 26 December 2017 Source: Myjoyonline.com 2017-12-26 Lawrence Joe Baidoo was a final year student of the Ghana Secondary Technical School The family of the 17-year-old student who was shot and killed by the police in the Western Region has threatened to consult a deity if the culprit is not brought to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":450168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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