A 47-year-old man, Kwaku Mensah, was shot dead at Ashongman, Accra, allegedly by his bedridden father in-law early in the morning of Tuesday for unknown reasons. For residents of the Bank of Ghana Estate at Ashongman, where the tragedy took place, the question is how Kwadwo Ahovi who could not walk, was able to enter Mensah's room, take his gun and shoot him at close range. Ahovi, had lived with his daughter's family for the past six months. He was being looked after by Mensah and his wife. When the Times visited the scene at about 8.20am, Mensah was lying in a pool of blood in front of his house with Ahovi calmly sitting beside the body with the alleged murder weapon lying close by. His daughter, Abla Ahovi, Mensah's wife, told the Times that her father had lived with the family since he was taken ill six months ago. She said that while Ahovi slept in the hall she, Mensah and two of the children slept in the bedroom. Abla further said her father had been almost bedridden for sometime and "he normally crawls when he wants to get fresh air outside." She told the Times’ reporter that by the time she got up at dawn to attend to nature's call, Mensah was already outside. While passing through the hall, she noticed that Ahovi was crawling into their room but did not enquire from him what he was looking for. "He used to come to our room and I was thinking it was one of his usual visits. It was after the murder that I realised that he had come for my husband's gun and some bullets which he used in killing him." Abla recalled that while in the toilet, she heard a gunshot and quickly rushed back only to find Mensah lying in a pool of blood and Ahovi sitting nearby with the gun. Mawutor Akatey, Mensah's son, said that he heard the gunshot from his room and when he rushed there he saw his father writhing in pain for a few minutes before he died. He said he quickly retrieved the gun from his grandfather who sat calmly but would not answer any questions. At the time the Times reporter left the scene, a police ambulance from the Police Hospital had arrived to convey the corpse to the mortuary. Source: The Ghanaian Times