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 Kolade Johnson was shot dead on Sunday, March 31, while watching the EPL tie between Liverpool and Tottenham.

              A Nigerian football lover identified as Kolade Johnson has been sent to an early grave on Sunday, March 31, after been hit by a police officer's stray bullet during a raid in Lagos. Kolade Johnson who was 36 years before his untimely death, was watching the Premier League clash between Liverpool and Tottenham, when the tragic incident happened. The heartbreaking incident occurred outside a Kingstine-Jo outlet in Mangoro, near the international airport in Ikeja, as police opened fired while trying to arrest a suspect. According to the reports, the police wanted to apprehend a man they thought was a criminal suspect because of his dreadlocks. They wanted to arrest Ismail who is known to everyone in the area and people quickly gathered to find out why. ''We later learnt that it was because he had dreadlocks that they wanted to arrest, fearing he might be a criminal,'' Dennis Ikpoba who claimed to be a friend of the deceased explained to the press. Dennis Ikpoba also revealed that the officers were from the police anti-cultism unit operating around Lagos, but added the shooting of Mr Johnson did not appear to be intentional. Meanwhile, serious investigations are said to be currently going on following the death of Kolade Johnson.