Gray Ekpezu, a final year student of the Department of medicine and surgery, University of Calabar has been killed by an unidentified personnel of the Nigerian army.

Gray was reportedly shot twice in the chest for no reason in the evening of Friday, July 9, by a soldier in front of his compound at Edibe Edibe, Calabar South, Cross River State.

Following the incident, irate residents took to the streets to protest the unfortunate death and were addressed by one of the battalion commanders in the area who advised them not to take laws into their hands and that the officer who committed the crime, will be brought to book.