An unidentified man believed to be mentally retarded has killed one Inspector Yakubu Awusi of the Badu Police Station in the Tain District of the Brong Ahafo Region.

The sad incident occurred on the night of Monday December 30, 2013 in the full view of the wife and children of the police Inspector, and one other police officer.

Wife of the late police inspector, Alice Badu told Adom News she her husband had gone to take his bath and just returned when the man knocked on their door and said he wanted to report a case to the inspector.

She said the man was wielding a metal rod and a sharp cutlass so Inspector Awusi asked decided to lead him to the police station to make his report.

“My husband asked the man to follow him and just before they could step out of the room the man hacked my husband down with the metal rod from behind, sat on him and butchered him several times till he died,” she lamented.

According to Alice, the husband managed to call for his gun but it was too late. The madman later tried to attack the wife of the police Inspector and his children but the other police officer present managed to shoot him down dead.

Adom News Correspondent at Tain FM, Akokoraba Oduro reported that the police inspector was later taken to the Wenchi Government Hospital but he was pronounced dead on arrival.

Both the body of the late police inspector and that of the murderous madman have since been deposited that the Wenchi Hospital morgue.

Crime Officer in charge of the case, DSP Vincent Adotey confirmed to Adom News that the late unidentified murderer was indeed mentally retarded by his sickness was on and off.

He said the police also had confirmation that he hailed from a village called Susuapa neat Badu, where the sad incident occurred. But the police are yet to know his name and to trace his family.

DSP Adotey said the police also gathered that the late murderer had two wives and three children.

Inspector Yakubu Awusi died at age 59 year and was succeeded by a wife and five children; a son and four daughters. He hailed from Daboya, Tamale in the Northern Region.