Alex John - the Masked Church Drummer

Homicide detectives attached to the State Criminal Investigations Department (SCID), Panti, Yaba, Lagos State, have arrested a church drummer, Mr. Alex John, a son of an ex police officer, for the attempted assassination of a woman and her daughter at the Isheri area of Ojodu Berger. John was said to have scaled the fence into the house of the 52-year-old widow, Mrs. Comfort Isong, and attacked her with a knife.

When Isong’s 17-year old daughter, Immaculater, heard her mother’s screams, she woke up and tried to stop the masked armed man. The man, however, turned on her and stabbed her in five different parts of her body, pushed her aside into her pool of blood. He proceeded to finished the 52 year old widow as he stated when he entered the room that “ I have come to finished you” that was his utterances to her when he entered her room.