An 18-year-old US-based Nigerian has been shot dead in Columbus Georgia.

Anthony Onochie, the twin son of Anayo and Donna Onochie, was killed on Saturday, July 11, 2026 – reportedly by a fellow teenager with a gun after an argument and altercation.

Three days after his murder, no arrest has been made, prompting the family to cry out for justice.

The handsome Anthony, a budding football star, recently graduated from Northside High School with a 4.3 GPA, according to a report by WTVM. “He was set to start at Georgia State in August, studying finance” but “was shot and killed in Lee County early Saturday morning,” the report said.

It quoted Coroner Daniel Sexton as saying that Anthony Onochie was found with gunshot wounds on Lee Road 1-97 just after 1:30 a.m. Saturday. Medics rushed him to Piedmont Columbus Regional, where he died around 11:30 a.m. that morning.”

The Onochie family had just returned from a weeklong Florida vacation when tragedy struck, according to WTVM.

It quoted Anthony’s heartbroken twin brother Andrew as calling for an end to gun violence and demanding the full truth. His words:

“I don’t think boys in their 20s need guns. We didn’t even get to send my brother off to college. I want the truth found out about my brother. I want the full truth. I want every aspect of the truth. I want all the lies to cease to exist.”

Andrew described Anthony as someone who “wasn’t afraid,” adding: “He didn’t stand for disrespect. I know he’s not a thug. My parents did not raise him like that. He’s Nigerian — he does not play. And my mom never played about anything like that.”

Calling for justice, he told the yet-to-be-apprehended killer: “I want you to sit in a jail cell and think about what you did to my brother.”

Lamenting young Anthony’s brutal killing, a family friend, Dr. Okey Anueyiagu, said: “His parents who have been friends even before this boy was born, are devastated.

“We are beset by senseless gun violence, as guns have become deeply ingrained in our society, and the exacerbation of the harm these guns cause, isn’t abetting at all.

“These killings have become a global epidemic, and have metastasized into intolerable and belligerent contraptions.”

Continuing, Dr. Anueyiagu, a popular scholar and entrepreneur, said in a social media post seen by News Express: “I am gravely perturbed that the life of such a promising young boy was so carelessly cut short, and that these long-lingering persistent killings have been largely ignored by those in authority, and that the deadly longevity of these senseless killings mars the mythology that most gun owners use in explaining away the need to bear arms — the constant reference to a silly constitution and the evil of its perils.

“As we mourn the loss of this beloved star, we must remember his family in our prayers and honor his memory.

“May his beautiful soul rest in peace.”

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