By Adesina Soyooye
For Udoamaka (Peace is beautiful) Nwamu, there was no peace in him. Nor mercy. Nor kindness. Nor anything beautiful.
For him, it was bitterness. Deep-seated hatred. Anger. Fury.
And, he unleashed all that on his once loved family – his 24 year old wife, Kaliyah Nwamu and her mother, 46 year old Nkita Green. They begged him for their lives. He jeered at them. Hatred swelled up in him. And overcame him.
He shot them to death, in a most gruesome manner. And, finally, seeing the hopelessness of his own life, 34 year-old Mr Nwamu turned the gun on himself, and snuffed his life out.
What could have pushed a young man into such heinous crimes. Neighbours and friends can hardly say. But that is what the Police in Douglasville, Georgia, USA, are trying to find out.
What can be said, for now, is that the couple was estranged. Apparently, his young wife was living with her equally young mother.
On June 6, 2021, Mr Nwamu decided to pay a visit to his estranged wife and mother-in-law. But it was not a friendly visit. He went with a gun in hand. Heart filled with hatred.
There were no knocks on the door from him. No pressing of the door bell. Nothing.
On arrival, he began to fire from all cylinders. He fired series of hot-shots both from the front and back doors.
Before an alarm could be raised, and before help could come,he had managed to force himself in. The cowed women, mother and daughter, perhaps, huddled together at a corner. He went in. Saw them. And, mercilessly, fired point blank, at close range, killing the frightened and helpless women.
Mission accomplished. His own hopelessness stared him in the face. It overcame him. And he turned the gun on himself.
When the Police, finally, arrived, they forced the door open. But it was too late. They could do nothing. Three young corpses stared them in the face – victims of inexplicable bitterness and hatred.
Investigations are on to establish what caused this absolute waste of young lives. What is left is for heartbroken families and friends to stare into space, and ask: Whatever happened?
This 34-year-old Nigerian man, Udoamaka Nwamu, recently separated from his wife, attacked her parents’ home, killing her and his mother-in-law before taking his own life.
Udoamaka reportedly took a handgun to his in-laws’ home in Douglasville, Georgia, United States on Sunday, June 6, where his estranged wife, Kaliyah Nwamu, 24, was staying, and fired shots into the front and back of the house.
Nwamu, subsequently, forced his way inside the home before security could come.
He shot his wife and her 46 year old mother, Nikita Green, dead before killing himself.
Security men forced the door open, and discovered the corpses.
Investigations are on-going to unravel the cause of this tragedy.
(Source: Herald.ng)
