Prof. Marinus Iwuchukwu.
The Allegheny County Police, in Pittsburgh, United States, has confirmed that Nigerian professor Marinus Iwuchukwu died from mass bleeding from stab wounds.
Lieutenant Venerando Costa, of the Allegheny County Police, on Wednesday, January 18, 2023, said that the,
“Cause of (Iwuchukwu’s) death was mass bleeding from stab wounds to the arm and leg,” Neusroom reports.
Police said they got a call from a ‘yet-to-be identified person’ to check the well-being of Iwuchukwu, and a woman identified as Charce Dunn, after an alleged “domestic disturbance” around 10 am on Tuesday, January 17, 2023.
A SWAT team that later gained access into the house found Iwuchukwu, 59, and the 50-year-old woman both dead.
Reacting to the death of Marinus Iwuchukwu, Duquesne Catholic University spokesperson, Gabriel Welsch said:
“This is a tragedy for all involved and our thoughts and prayers are with Professor Iwuchukwu’s colleagues, students, friends, and loved ones.”
Before his death, Iwuchukwu, was an Associate Professor of Theology at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA.
He was born in Nigeria and raised as a Catholic in Kano.
After his Primary and Secondary School education in Northern Nigeria, he gained admission to the University of Ibadan, where he obtained a Diploma in Religious Studies.
Prof. Iwuchukwu obtained a Bachelor’s degree from Urbanian University, Rome in 1999. Back in Nigeria, he attended Media Service Centre, Kaduna in 1992.
Thereafter, he took up a lecturing job with the Federal College of Education, Kano, and four years later, obtained his Post-Graduate Diploma in Education from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.
For his Master's, Prof. Iwuchukwu studied Religious Journalism at Marquette University, USA to blend his religious and media qualifications.
Following the September 11, 2011 attack on the U.S., Prof Iwuchukwu, in a 2017 interview, questioned how knowledgeable journalists assigned to cover religion-related violence are in that area.
“You know, you sent journalists to cover beats on politics, on economics, and other major disciplines, and you made sure they are people who had at least a robust understanding and are well-educated and well-versed in the area.
"But when it comes to journalists who cover religion, oftentimes they sent the rookie, just to make sure somebody went there to report,” he said.
In August 2008, Prof. Iwuchukwu began his full-time teaching career at the Faculty of Theology Department, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he taught Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Building Bridges: Inclusive Religious Pluralism and Dialogue, among other subjects.
He is the author of Muslim-Christain Dialogue in Postcolonial Nigeria: The Challenges of Inclusive Cultural and Religious Pluralism published in 2013.
He also published several journals, research work, and book reviews.
Four years ago, another Nigerian, Gbolade Ejemai, a 30-year-old Nigerian medical student was killed in a similar circumstance.
The suspect, Victoria Popvrako, a 36-year-old mother of two was said to be in a relationship with Ejemai and allegedly killed him after a heated argument.
Crime. Relationships.
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