Sheriff’s Office says Omo-Osagie’s Death was Self-Inflicted

Authorities say Champaign-Urbana landlord Gabriel Omo-Osagie shot his wife before turning the weapon on himself. The 51 year old Urbana Township man died Saturday in what Champaign County Sheriff's investigators say was a result of a domestic dispute.

The sheriff's office says that Omo-Osagie and his wife Stephanie Bond argued, after which Omo-Osagie took out a firearm and shot Bond several times before shooting himself. According to a sheriff's news release, an autopsy conducted Monday morning determined that Omo-Osagie's bullet wounds were consistent with a self-inflicted injury.

Omo-Osagie was a native of Nigeria who owned several apartment buildings in Champaign-Urbana under the name Gabe's Place. Court records show that he had been charged with domestic battery last November, and ordered to have no contact with his wife. But the order was modified to allow contact, and to let Omo-Osagie visit their home on Highcross Road, but not stay overnight.