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By Olabisi Tayo
Najeebat Sule
A former Nigerian beauty queen and doctorate student in the United States, Najeebat Sule, has been dead shot by a yet-to-be-identified gunman in Philadelphia, United States, local media quote local police as saying.
Fox29 Philadelphia reported that the unknown assailant opened fire on the 24-year-old model while she was sitting in her car on March 12 at about 6 p.m. in the city’s Holmesburg neighbourhood.
She was, thereafter, taken to Jefferson-Torresdale Hospital where she died. The parents of the deceased are now in hiding over concerns for their safety, reports said
Ms Sule’s father, Adewale Sule, told reporters that he heard the gunfire and hurried to the scene, but the suspect had just fired the last rounds of the shots at his daughter when he emerged from the house.
“I saw the guy shooting my daughter. He shot the last round, and I pursued him,” DailyMail quoted him saying. ‘He ran back to his car.’
The police said the search for the suspect was still on about three weeks after the incident happened.
Ms Sule, who had only recently earned a Master’s degree in public health from West Chester University and was pursuing a doctorate, migrated with her family to Philadelphia from Nigeria in the early 2000s.
According to her bio on Instagram, in 2019, she was crowned second runner-up at the Miss Nigeria International pageant, where she represented Ondo State. She was also a 2019 Miss Nigeria USA finalist.
Her over 3,000 followers Instagram page features the fashionista modelling in a variety of glamorous outfits and accessories, including videos of her pageant victories.
Source: Premium Times
