BOY, 15, TAKEN FOR GAME (MIRROR, LEAD STORY, JAN 15, 2011)

From Moses Dotsey Aklorbortu, Sekondi

A 15-YEAR-OLD JSS school dropout was last Monday mistaken for a game and shot dead by a farmer at Wansampo near Akontombrah in the Sefwi-Wiawso District in the Western Region.
Kwabena Asiamo was said to have climbed a tree in the bush to pluck some fruits.
The police said the suspect, John Kofi Yeboah, 52, was on his way to the farm with his gun when he saw movements on the tree.
After shooting at his target and thinking that he had got himself meat for the evening meal, Yeboah was said to have climbed the tree to retrieve the carcass only to realise that he had killed a human being.
He became alarmed and started shouting for help, leaving behind the gun he used to commit the crime.
Asked what the boy was doing in the bush, the police explained that the boy was a school dropout and was in the bush to pluck some fruits.
The body has since been deposited at the Sefwi-Wiawso Government Hospital Morgue for autopsy.
The single barrel gun with a spent shell has been retrieved from the crime scene and the suspect is currently in police custody helping in their investigation.