Emmanuella was a final year student of kwararafa university.
In defending their action, police said the incident happened as they are trying to fire back in response to gunshots from a car that refused to stop as they were trying to stop them on the checkpoint.
There was a lot of responses from witnesses who said that the police shot the lady purposely.
Detailed investigations are being requested by the Benue state police commissioner so as to look into the case properly.
There was an ongoing protests in Makurdi now as regards to this and they are demanding that justice should prevail over the matter.