A policeman kills himself while he "checks" the gun of a boyfriend

General News of Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Source: www.ghanaweb.com

2019-04-24

A rather tragic way of dying; to be killed by the bullet of a fellow cop while he was checking. Frederick Afoakwah, who died Sunday after a shootout by his friend he was playing with, died accidentally and ended his life.

Frederick Afoakwah, originally from Ghana, was to be the best man in the Housing Bureau official, Martinson Afari Yeboah, whose wedding took place three weeks after the tragic incident. Unfortunately, however, he shot himself in the back of the neck while trying to inspect the gun that had been placed on the table by his friend Yeboah in his apartment (Afoakwah).

The shooting took place around 5:30 am Sunday shortly after the meeting between the two players to play video games as usual. Yeboah, who lives on the same floor, was not on duty and joined his friend in his apartment on Mosholu Tower, near Jerome Avenue, during a session leading up to the dawn of Fifa Soccer on Sunday, according to police sources and the father of the victim.

"I went out and saw my son lying on the ground … There was blood everywhere on the carpet and the couch," said Afoakwah's shattered father, Ransford Afoakwah, 55. "He did not speak."

He also explained that he had died shortly after being transported to the St. Barnabas Hospital.

Shortly before the shot, Ransford Afoakwah had urged his son to turn off the video game and go to bed because the family was planning to attend an early Mbad for Easter, he said.

"I woke up and saw them playing again and said, 'Why do not you go to bed?' He said, "After that, I heard the sound of the shooting."

Since his son was bleeding profusely, he tried to make CPR without success.

Yeboah was arrested after the shooting. At the police station, he asked his uncle to go to the hospital to find out if his best friend had survived.

"And then the uncle told him sadly that he pbaded," Yeboah said. "He could not understand, he had to tell him six times before he got down."

"They are the best friends in the world," said Joyce Yeboah, 54, the devastated aunt of Frederick Afoakwah.

Afoakwah, 21, lived with her parents and a cousin and attended the Borough of Manhattan Community College. He began studying criminal justice, inspired by Yannah's fledgling career in the NYPD.

"He encouraged Fred to take this subject," said Afoakwah's father, Ransford Afoakwah, 54.

Both families are from Ghana and are very united

"We are a family, a family," said Joyce Yeboah. "Their doors are always ajar …. [Martinson Yeboah’s] mother is a deaconess in our church. "

Afoakwah and Yeboah met when he moved into the building with his family in 2013, and they have been inseparable ever since. They bought clothes together and went to the Pentecost Church, 216th St. and Bronx Blvd. Sundays and Wednesdays.

Afoakwah's father said he was not angry with Yeboah.

"Martinson is a good guy, he is respectful," he said. "I do not see him talking, shouting or fighting, never with people – I never see him … If someone is your enemy, you're not going to ask him to be your best man . "