Suspect shot dead as they robbed student
A robber was this afternoon shot dead and five of his accomplices escaped with gunshot injuries in Githurai’s 44 area after police officers on patrol busted them attacking a 22-year old student.
The Kiambu Institute of Science and Technology was
accosted by a gang of six machete wielding young men, who roughed him up
thoroughly before stealing from him his mobile phone and Sh 10,000 in cash.
Paradoxically, the victim was a visitor in
Githurai and he had just dropped his brother’s resume at Kenyatta University
Teaching and Referral Hospital, for consideration for a job before he was
attacked in the 2pm incident as he strolled along Thika Superhighway towards
Githurai.
As he wandered into Majengo area, the thugs approached
him and demanded that he buys them cigarettes, which he obliged and gave them
Sh100. They then left him to enter a nearby food kiosk and have lunch, before
ungratefully attacking him after he left the kiosk.
Police officers who were on patrol immediately
rushed to the scene after the victim raised alarm, accosting the thugs who took
flight to different directions.
However, one thug drew a homemade pistol capable
of firing and shot at the fast approaching constables, who immediately returned
fire, fatally wounding the suspect who is believed to be the gang’s commander.
As sounds of gunfire rent the air, the rest of the
suspects managed to flee, with their bodies riddled with gunshot injuries. A
contingent of officers backed up by colleagues from the Canine section, was
immediately deployed in search of the miscreants.
Meanwhile, a mobile phone belonging to the suspect
was recovered from the fatally wounded thug, whose body is lying at the City Mortuary
pending identification.
A mobile phone belonging to the victim or the suspect ?
ReplyDeleteVictim of the robbery
ReplyDelete