Bolanle Fadairo Charged For Murder of Michael and Micah Essien – The suspect charged with murder in the deaths of Michael and Micah Essien is expected in court on Thursday.
The man accused of shooting a Texas father to death, stealing his SUV, and then abandoning it with the victim’s toddler locked inside is expected in court Thursday on murder charges.
Bolanle Fadairo Charged For Murder of Michael and Micah Essien
Bolanle Fadairo, 38, has been charged with two counts of murder — one for 38-year-old Michael Essien and the second for Essien’s 2-year-old son Micah — and tampering with evidence, KHOU reports.
As CrimeOnline previously reported, the Houston dad apparently got into an argument with his killer Tuesday afternoon, according to police. After the shooting, the suspect fled in Essien’s SUV, which police later found abandoned, with the doors locked and the windows rolled up, charging documents say. The toddler inside was dead.
Police were unaware a toddler was involved until Essien’s wife called 911 several hours after the murder to report her husband and child missing. The vehicle was found about 30 minutes later.
The documents say Fadairo allegedly tried to destroy text messages, KTRK reported.
Essien’s sister, Jessie Okon, told KHOU that her brother had two other children — a 5-year-old son and a 1-week-old infant.
Sources told the station that Fadairo and Essien were acquainted and that both worked as security guards. Sources also said that Fadairo claimed Essien owned him money.
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Toddler Who Died in His Stolen SUV Just Welcomed New Baby to Family
A Houston family stunned by the news that a 2-year-old boy and his dad were found dead Tuesday is struggling to understand how this could happen.
The bodies of 38-year-old Michael Essien and his son Micah were found hours apart at two separate scenes in the Gulfton area of southwest Houston.
“Tell Houston, tell the whole world that I want my nephew back. He’s only 2 years old. He does not know how to hurt a fly,” Jessie Okon, the toddler’s aunt, told us Wednesday. She doesn’t understand why anyone would kill Michael either.
“My brother has always been a peaceful man. I need my brother back.”
Michael was shot Tuesday afternoon on El Camino Del Rey Street near Chimney Rock Road. At the time, police had no idea his SUV had been taken with the 2-year-old inside.
Michael’s wife called Wednesday evening to report her husband and child were missing, and that’s when officers found the SUV on Elm Street near Renwick Drive. The little boy was unresponsive in the backseat and efforts to revive him failed.
News that a man had been arrested and charged in the case Wednesday was little consolation to the victims’ heartbroken family.
“And for him, mostly for my nephew, God will give him his reward,” Okon said.
Micah’s cousin said he was a happy-go-lucky little boy.
“Micah is always cheerful, wants to be around someone – at church, always happy,” Etimbuk Isaiah said.
Essien and his wife recently welcomed another baby and they also have an older son.
“She’s hanging on is all I can say. It’s a difficult thing to process right now and so tragic because nobody wakes up planning to die,” Etimbuk Isaiah, a cousin, said. “And just taking it one day at a time, that’s all I can say.”
Family members say Essien attended Hastings High School, attended college as an athlete and worked at a security company. He was wearing his security guard uniform when he was killed.
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