The mother of 26-year-old Joseph Adjei, the young man shot and killed by police on Thursday, is denying reports her deceased son was a robber.<\/p>\n
She said this when the authorities of the Accra Regional Police Command visited them to commiserate with the family of the deceased man.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”EU3v2v6JEFOeYp3pL3b7QrHDDNGnHInD”]Speaking to Citi news<\/strong> mother of the deceased said her son was with her in the room when the police came to her, dragged her son on the floor and beat him.<\/p>\n She remained adamant her son was not a thief saying \u201cMy son is not a thief. He helps my nephew in his work.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile a family friend who also spoke to Citi news<\/strong> said the police came to apologise for putting wrong information on the media.<\/p>\n “We were not happy and today the police came in to clarify issues today, that they were sorry for putting wrong information on air,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n He further added, \u201cHe [Joseph] is not a criminal, as they put on air yesterday. That was not the case.\u201d<\/p>\n This family friend stated the police say they will be investigating the issue further.<\/p>\n The Police administration has detained the officer, Sergeant Adorye, who shot and killed Joseph Adjei along with a murder suspect, Adesha Bagagyi.<\/p>\n A police team was in the area on Nmaii Dzorn to arrest the suspect who is believed to have killed a young man during last year\u2019s Homowo festivities.<\/p>\n Earlier reports say the officer in question, opened fire after the victims;\u00a0Adesha Bagagyi, along with Joseph Adjei, attempted to use a machete and an axe to stop the arrest.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The mother of 26-year-old Joseph Adjei, the young man shot and killed by police on Thursday, is denying reports her deceased son was a robber. She said this when the authorities of the Accra Regional Police Command visited them to commiserate with the family of the deceased man. [contextly_sidebar id=”EU3v2v6JEFOeYp3pL3b7QrHDDNGnHInD”]Speaking to Citi news mother of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}