The Police Command in Edo State has arrested a young man who purportedly stabbed his mother to death before smashing her head open with the murder weapon.

The incident reportedly took place in the early hours of Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017, at their residence located on Iyamu Street, off Textile Mill Road in Benin, Edo state capital.

According to a Facebook user who witnessed the incident, Kingsley O. Kingsley, the young man,  & the mother had an argument over a yet to be known issue when he got into a deadly rage & stabbed her many times & later smashed her head open.

The suspect was said to have barely escaped being killed by angry residents when they heard the crime he committed when the police were invited & they managed to rescue him & took him to their station where he is being detained right now.