NOTORIOUS ARMED ROBBER GUNNED DOWN IN CALABAR IN BROAD DAYLIGHT

Wanted criminal Stephen Etim Edet was shot dead by men of the Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Cross River State Police Command on wednesday.

The deceased was a member of a notorious armed robbery gang that has been terrorizing the city for years and escaped with his men following a foiled robbery attack at a housing estate.

Stephen was said to have been trailed and chased by the SARS patrol team from Bayside, Marina where he had crossed the Atakpa gully control site into the Police Barracks at Moore road and hid in someone's apartment after threatening the occupants. 
"When SARS team appeared on the scene, they combed the place and brought him out" said an eyewitness.

"When they brought him out,people gathered and the leader of the SARS team shouted "waste that idiot, kill him" he instructed his boys.

One of the men shot him in the buttocks with the bullet penetrating to his penis region which was shattered.

"He kept struggling for about 30 minutes before he died and another Police team came and took his body away" the eyewitness added.