According to reports, late Nnadi was shot dead by the assailants along Okwelle- Umuezealaibe road. He was said to have left his village, Ogwuaga, to Okwelle to buy some items when he was spotted by a gang of gunmen passing by the road.
The gunmen, it was gathered, had kidnapped a mother and child elsewhere and were passing through the community when they ran into him. They were said to have identified him as a security agent and shot him at close range immediately.