MOURNING AS POLICE NAME NIGERIAN VICTIM IN US SHOOTING

AS the Oakland shooting that resulted in the death of seven students of a Christian University in the city continued to elicit global condemnation, the Police in California, United States (U.S.), yesterday identified a Nigerian, Doris Chibuko, as one of the victims. Meanwhile, mourners began showing up at Chibuko’s home as soon as the news filtered through the tight-knit Nigerian community in the U.S. Chibuko had not been heard from since a gunman killed seven people at Oakland’s Oikos University, where she had been studying, but police did not confirm the family’s worst fears until late Tuesday afternoon. As Efanye Chibuko stood inside the family home in the San Leandro hills, its walls covered with photographs of his wife and their three children, he sobbed: “She liked to spend time with her family. Right now, I’m just trying to grieve,” her spouse, who is a technician at AT&Am, ruminated. Chibuko, 40, and a...  CLICK TO READ MORE

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