URN.Richard Okello Lawang, the LC I Chairperson of Pabit village told URN on Tuesday that the gunmen shot Odong around 8:00 pm on Monday near Pakwelo Primary School on his way home after attending a function in Gulu City.
Unknown gunmen have shot dead David Odong,45, the Deputy Headteacher of Ogom Seeds Secondary School in Pader district.
Richard Okello Lawang, the LC I Chairperson of Pabit village told URN on Tuesday that the gunmen shot Odong around 8:00 pm on Monday near Pakwelo Primary School on his way home after attending a function in Gulu City.
Lawang says that Odong was riding a Bajaj Motorcycle registration number UFM 117W, which the gunmen took. The deceased has been a student at Gulu University in Gulu City.
In her statement to the police in Unyama, Christine Abalo, a resident of the area says that two armed men who were riding a motorcycle intercepted Odong in Unyama B Cell and shot him severally and left him for dead.
She says that well-wishers picked up Odong and rushed him to St Mary`s Hospital Lacor Hospital in Gulu City where he was pronounced dead this morning.
David Ongom Mudong, the Aswa River Police Spokesperson, says that Unyama Police Post has entered a case of aggravated robbery vide CRB 44/22.
This is the fifth case of armed motorcycle robbery registered in Gulu district this year alone.