LAGOS—Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Fatai Owoseni, has ordered the arrest of a policeman who allegedly shot and killed one of Nigeria’s celebrated tennis players, identified as Beauty Mc- Cleod.

According to sources, the policeman, attached to Moroko Police Station, has been arrested and detained on the orders of the commissioner.

The victim, Beauty Mc- Cleod, was said to have been shot by the policeman at a hotel, named Emperor’s Place, during an altercation on Sunday. The tennis star was lodging at the hotel before her murder.

The incident occurred at a hotel located on Balarabe Musa Street, Victoria Island, Lagos.

An attendant working in the hotel said the policeman, who was attached to the hotel as one of the security guards, shot the tennis star after a brief argument.

One of the hotel attendants who spoke with Vanguard on condition of anonymity, revealed that the United Arab Emirates-based tennis star was lodging at the hotel with her daughter, Angel, but met her untimely death in the hands of the trigger- happy policeman when she challenged the cop for refusing her guest entry into the hotel premises.

The attendant said: “Beauty returned from Ghana on Sunday where she took her daughter to a tennis academy.

‘’She invited one of her friends to pick her up for shopping at the hotel that same night but had reservations about the manner the police guard treated her guest.

“She apparently challenged the policeman when she went back to her room to pick her wallet and  the policeman shot her on the leg.

‘’We really don’t know what transpired between the two of them, but we saw the policeman open fire on the woman.”

It was learned that the deceased was rejected at a nearby hospital where she was initially rushed to for treatment but lost too much blood and gave up the ghost a day after she was admitted at Saint Nicholas Hospital.

Confirming the incident, the state Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Mr Joe Offor, said the killer policeman  was attached to Mountain Troop Police, not Moroko Police Division.