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Following the tragic demise of a US-based Nigerian cardiologist, Dr. Ikenna Erinne, his father-in-law, Francis Van-Lare alleged that he held his estranged partner and their children hostage at gunpoint for three hours.

Initially believed to have taken his own life due to financial strain from a $15,000 monthly child support ruling, new revelations suggest that his final moments were far more disturbing.

Francis Van-Lare, the father of Erinne’s estranged partner, has alleged that before his suicide, the deceased doctor held his daughter and grandchildren hostage at gunpoint for three hours. He ultimately turned the weapon on himself when police arrived.

Van-Lare, a socialite and public figure, made the revelation on his official Facebook account on Sunday. This was in response to an earlier post by Facebook user Amanda Chisom, who clarified that Erinne’s ex-partner was not a white woman, as widely speculated, but Van-Lare’s daughter.

Dr. Ikenna Erinne passed away after holding my daughter hostage

“While there was a custody battle my daughter is involved in and I only became aware last Monday morning about 3 am Nigerian time that the deceased held her and her children at gunpoint for three hours after losing a custody battle, the nanny managed to escape and called the police and on arrival of the police he shot himself dead. I guess he decided to kill himself instead of facing three counts of kidnapping with a deadly weapon 25 years to life each.

“While I sympathize with his family for his death, my daughter is not responsible for him taking his own life and I thank God it did not degenarate to where he shoots my daughter, grand children and himself.
May his soul rest in peace. Everyone is loser here and it is traumatizing for all including me.”