Two Male security guards at St Joseph’s Hospital Kitgum, Kitgum municipality have ruthlessly gunned down a mentally derailed LCI Chairperson Quinto Opira 53, for yelling and running around the hospital premises.
The Kitgum Resident District Commissioner William Komakech says the deceased had been admitted at the hospital on Monday after suffering a mental illness.
Komackech says the deceased while at the hospital started running around like a raving lunatic screaming uncontrollably and the guards on duty chose to shoot him dead.
According to sources at the hospital, Opira had wandered from his ward towards the kitchen where some women were cooking and he reportedly started pelting them with stones prompting the apparently scared women to make alarms which attracted the guards.
Sources alleged that one of the guards ordered Opira to drop the stones he was holding in his hands but instead charged towards them. One of the guards fired two bullets in the air before aiming the third one at him.
Police said the two guards linked to the shooting have been detained at Kitgum Central Police Station pending further investigations.
Police identified them as Lawrence Elasu, 22, from Amuria District and Fred Hasahya, 24, from Butaleja District.
Both are residents of Parabongo Nyiki-Nyiki Cell in Pager Division, Kitgum municipality.
