The 48-year-old lover of the young man identified as Ijeoma Felix met the suspect in a Facebook group in 2020 and started dating.
According to reports, the suspect stole the victim’s car and other valuables. While being interrogated, the suspect on Tuesday confessed to having hit the victim with a pestle during an allegedly violent argument at her two-bedroom residence in the Lugbe area of the FCT on October 24.
The suspect told the police that after they met on Facebook, the deceased asked him to move in with her but as time went in, the relationship became toxic with him being the victim.
He further disclosed that he was engaged in an argument with the deceased over a Toyota Highlander she had given him, which he sold without her consent. However, their argument escalated into a fistfight where the deceased met her death.
The suspect disclosed that after killing Ijeoma, he took the car documents of his lover’s Camry and sold it for N1.7 million.
