A final year student of the Evangel University, Akaeze, Ebonyi state identified as Promise Adim was murdered in cold blood after a reckless driver mowed him down outside the school's campus today.

According to reports, he was trying to catch a bus outside the school premises when he was knocked down.

The driver rushed him to the hospital but he didn't make it.

Until his death, Promise was a student of the Department of Mathematics at Evangel University.

Friends and course mates have taken to Facebook to express shock at his sudden demise.