A 21-year-old hoodlum identified as, Lati Elepo on Tuesday stabbed a landlord to death at Itire area of Lagos State, when hoodlums picked up fight against each other along the street. The landlord reportedly went in between the fight to ask the hoodlums to leave his area when one of them stabbed.


The landlord who is a father of three slumped as sustaining a deep cut. The culprit was then arrested by residents while other hoodlums escaped. The matter was reported at the Itire Police Station.

Friends and family members rushed the landlord to a private hospital in the area, from where he was referred to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi Araba, where he was confirmed dead.

His corpse was afterwards brought to the Itire division.

The hoodlums, numbering six boys, had come from Osindero Street to meet one Balogun, who they claimed owed them about N30,000. The hoodlums started trouble on the street, when they did not meet Balogun at home.