-As man shoots his wife to death for jealousy
BY: Shallon S. Gonlor
GBAPA TOWN, NIMBA CO.— Police in Nimba County are searching the whereabouts of a man who allegedly murdered his wife brutally through gunshot.
A 40-year-old man, whose identity is not immediately known, shot his wife, a 35-year-old lad, with a single-barrel gun resulting in her death. The incident happened Tuesday inside their bedroom in Gbapa Town, Nimba County.
According to the incident report, the suspect at large had a big argument with his wife before her death based on jealousy of extramarital affairs. It was reported that after killing her, he fled the scene while the victim’s body was found and reported to the town chief who later informed the police.
The act of brutality against women in Nimba and other parts of Liberia it’s not the first, second, or third time in the country. Murder cases linked to love are greatly on the increase by the day. Over the years, men have committed murder 10 times more often than women. Men are far more likely to be serial killers, mass shooters, and shedding blood.
The 35-year-old woman’s alleged murder by her husband heightened fears among the citizenry about gun violence, especially with women in love affairs with men. It was established that the victim was murdered on an allegation of extramarital affairs. Meanwhile, the victim’s remains have been turned over to her family for burial while the suspect is at large.
Murder Cases Linked to Love:
In February 2023, Nimba 8th Judicial Circuit Court in Sanniquellie sentenced a 33-year-old man to 80 years in prison for killing his girlfriend. The judge ruled that convict, Ernest Gbartoe, 33, committed a first-degree felony of murder which carries a maximum penalty of death upon conviction.
Judge Roland F. Dahn said that the convict was a young man energetic enough to work but he instead decided to engage himself in an unlawful act to kill his girlfriend Yei Gargbay.
The 80-year-old convict on the night of December 3, 2022, attacked his girlfriend Yei Gargbay with a machete and chopped her head and other body parts over claims that she was in a love affair with another man for which she always refused his sexual advances at night.
The two (Ernest and Yei) were residents of the New Barrack Community in Sanniqiillie, Nimba County. Following the commission of the act, defendant Ernest Gbatoe absconded the scene and was later arrested in a nearby village and taken to Sanniqiillie where he allegedly committed the crime for preliminary investigation.
While being quizzed by officers of the Crime Services Department (CSD) defendant Gbatoe admitted that he was deeply in love with his girlfriend and could not withstand the heartbreak of seeing her sharing her love with another man after spending more than six years living together.
