A respected poet and professor of English and Literature, Dubem Okafor has reportedly shot himself dead. The unfortunate incident happened last Sunday in the United States after reportedly shooting his wife Cheryl.
Reports and calls from the US say Okafor, 64, a cousin to the late poet, Christopher Okigbo apparently in pain his wife had left him a few days earlier, arranged to meet her at his sister’s Reading Home, Pennsylvania, where he shot her several times and himself once in the head at 3:45 p.m. Sunday, police said.
A small-calibre handgun was found near the bodies, police said. The Berks County coroner declared her death a homicide and his death a suicide.
Chukwudubem A. Okafor, 64, an associate professor of English at Kutztown University, was said to have shot his wife, Cheryl V., 37, who was an artist, several times Sunday afternoon and turned the gun on himself shortly after they arrived separately at the home of his sister, Patricia Ofilin, in the 300 block of Pear Street, investigators said.
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