Police in Edo State have arrested three suspected killers of late Mrs. Grace Omoigui, mother of a former Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, Ifueko Omoigui-Okauru.
The deceased, a retired magistrate, was reportedly shot in the thigh during a robbery on Liberty Avenue, GRA, Benin, on October 24.
The Commissioner of Police, Haliru Gwandu, disclosed that the suspects were arrested four days after the attack.
She was said to be returning from a bank along Sapele Road, when the armed robbers trailed her.
The 82-year-old victim was trailed to the premises of a hotel along Liberty Avenue, where she was shot by the robbers who carted away her two million naira.
The police boss identified the suspects as Austin Orene, Isaiah Ngbeken and Esogie Aigbede. According to the commissioner, items recovered from them included one double-barrelled cut-to-size gun, two single-barrelled cut-to-size gun and a live cartridge.
Other items recovered were assorted handsets, different identity cards and receipt booklets, a decoder, a DVD and a laptop.
He said that although the charges earlier preferred against the suspects was armed robbery, they would be reviewed to include murder, following the death of the woman on November 19.