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The Ghana Police Service has revealed that the gun used in the landlord-tenant shooting incident at Ofankor was legally acquired and registered.

A statement from the police said the weapon was registered in 2007.

“Police investigations have disclosed that the weapon used in committing the crime was legally acquired and registered through due process in 2007,” a statement from the police noted.

The landlord, Victor Stephen Kankam, shot his tenant over the weekend.

The deceased died from gunshot wounds after he was shot multiple times on Sunday, May 24, 2020 at Spot M near Ofankor in Accra.

The suspect told the police that he acted in self-defence after the deceased failed to vacate a two-bedroom house rented to him at Ofankor in Accra.

He was taken to court on a provisional murder charge and after hearing the facts of the case, did not take the plea of the accused person.

The court has remanded the suspect in police custody to reappear on June 8, 2020.

According to the statement, the Accra Regional Police Command has taken over the case.

“The Accra Regional Police Command has taken over the investigation into the alleged shooting and the killing of a tenant by his landlord on Sunday 24th May 2020. The suspect, Victor Stephen Nana Kankam has been put before the Abeka District Court and remanded into Police custody,” the statement added.