The United States of America has declared a Nigerian, identified as Olalekan Abimbola Olawusi, wanted over a murder charge.
The government has also placed a $25,000 bounty on him, to be given to anyone who can provide it with information that could facilitate his arrest.
According to a statement by the Supervisory Deputy U.S. Marshal, Don Freeman, issued on Monday, Olawusi was arraigned on two counts bordering on first-degree murder caused by inflicting bodily injury to a child and unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.
Freeman noted that on the 3rd of April 2017, police operatives and firefighters had found Olawusi’s three-month-old child, rescued and took him to the hospital where it was discovered that the child had suffered injuries in 18 parts of his body.
He stated that the infant had died six months after being hospitalised as a result of the injuries he had allegedly sustained from his father’s abuse which prompted the prosecuting department to include a murder charge in the ongoing trial.
He however noted that Olawusi who was charged in court on April 20, 2017, disappeared after he was released the same day while the trial was pending.
The statement reads in part, “Olalekan Abimbola Olawusi, 48, was charged in Providence with first-degree murder and two counts of inflicting serious bodily injury to a child after Providence Police and Fire personnel found his three-month-old son bleeding from the mouth and nose at a residence on April 3, 2017.
“Providence police arrested and charged Olawusi on April 20, 2017, with first-degree child abuse. He was released the same day and subsequently fled. The murder charge was added following the infant’s death on October 31, 2017.”
