Nigerian Medical Doctor Shot Dead By Her Husband In The USA

Domestic violence is something I just cannot deal with. Its a thousand times better to walk away with your life intact than walk away as a corpse and what is it with Nigerian men killing their wives in the US bikonu. The recent case is that of a doctor identified as Isioma Ebegbodi, whose life was cut short by her violent husband. 

Tall, elegant and brilliant Isioma Ebegbodi was murdered in cold blood by her Nigerian husband in Texas state of America on Saturday March 22, 2014. She attended Queen’s College Yaba Lagos and later proceeded to University of Lagos to study Medicine. She was until her gruesome murder a medical resident physician at Marshfield clinic in Texas.

Her husband, a 63-year-old Nigerian man was later charged with murder after he confessed to shooting her around 3 a.m on Saturday March 22,2014 in west Harris County, Texas USA.

Martin Ebegbodi went to a neighbor’s house and asked him to call police after getting into a fight and then shooting his wife, 36-year-old Isioma Ebegbodi nee Unokanjo.

The Harris County Sheriff’s Department arrived at the house in the 19700 block of Youpon Leaf Way and arrested Ebegbodi. 

Martin Ebegbodi and Isioma J Unokanjo were married on February 11, 2005 in Harris County, Texas with Marriage certificate number 018430. The deceased was born in 1978 in Nigeria

Sources say the marriage has witnessed several storms. 

Gbemisola Boyede, former schoolmate to Isioma wrote this tribute for her on Facebook. Here I am just as I was breathing the sigh of relief that justice was done in the case of Titi Arowolo murdered by her husband in a grotesque act in their own home here in Nigeria.

And watching with bated breath the ongoing trial of Oscar Pistorius who shot dead his girlfriend in his luxury house in Pretoria on Valentine day

I got the rudest shock of my life that a colleague, friend, former classmate in medical school was shot dead at 3am on Saturday in Texas, United States by her own husband! This is too close home for comfort!
Someone tell me what’s going on?
Why are people who professed to love forever and who vowed before God and man pulling the trigger to abruptly cut short the lives they are to protect?
How do we explain this to the innocent children who are going to be deprived for life of parental love and care? Mum is dead but dad isn’t available because he’s serving terms for killing mum?
How? How?? How???

Please if you’re in an abusive relationship riddled with domestic violence, this is the time to get out!Please stop keeping the front of happiness when you’re dying inside!
The society may not understand, we may even condemn ignorantly
But you owe it a responsibility to those innocent children to be ALIVE!
Please get out NOW to a safe house
I don’t want to ever mourn another victim of spousal or domestic abuse
I can’t begin to describe all the emotions I’m going through
So you can only imagine what her parents, sister and children will be going through!
This is so sad and how many times I’ve wished in the last 48 hours, we can turn back the hand of the clock!
Rest in peace Isioma, Issy Awele Ebegbodi and I pray God comforts your children and family and us all mourning you!
It shall be well!