Fashion designer gunned down by unknown assailants

Unknown gunmen who posed as customers shot and killed Segun Sowemimo, a fashion designer  in the Itu-Nla, Ikorodu area of Lagos State causing panic in the area.

Reports say the four gunmen  killed Segun at his shop located at Lemo compound on Saturday around 12pm, the assailants murdered a mechanic, whose name had yet to be ascertained at Allison Street, which is not too far away from where Segun was killed.

 the gunmen asked the mechanic to repair their faulty motorbike before he was shot dead on the spot.

Recounting the incident, Segun’s younger brother, Abiodun said the gunmen warned his brother’s apprentice to cooperate or else she’ll be killed.

“It was exactly at 20 minutes to 12pm that we heard the gunshots. My brother was in his shop. He was working when the four men walked in like customers, and pointed guns at him.