A Thika based businessman who was shot while on a farm he co-owned with other directors, including the family of the late John Michuki, was hit by a single bullet.
An autopsy conducted on the body of Mr Sundhir Shah showed he was hit in the chest by a single shot that went through his lower back, rapturing his right lung and causing internal bleeding.
Chief government pathologist Johansen Oduor conducted the exercise on Tuesday at the Mary Help Funeral Home in Thika in the presence of his family.
According to police, Shah, 66, was attacked by two people who were riding on a motorbike within the Ndarugo Plantation 1960 Limited on March 5 in Juja, Kiambu County.
He was a director at the farm estimated at Sh3 billion. A team of detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations has taken over the probe.
Head of investigations at the DCI John Gachomo said preliminary findings had shown Shah was in the company of eight people, including another plantation director, when the incident happened.
He said investigations into the incident are ongoing.
They had driven within the farm and stopped near Thika Road when they were attacked.
A police officer who was accompanying them has been disarmed and his gun sent for ballistic tests.
The police bodyguard attached to a son of former minister John Michuki was escorting the directors.
He was armed with a pistol at the time of the incident. The officer said he stepped back and fired at them eight times but he did not get his target.
Police said the bodyguard told them that the gang had shot and killed the deceased before escaping. But the team that visited the scene said they had not recovered any spent cartridges from the said attackers.
The probe intends to establish if the killer bullets were fired by the officer or the said attackers. Police said the motive of the attack is yet to be known but the family suspects he was targeted for elimination.
The team from homicide plans to revisit the scene with the directors and other witnesses for reconstruction and search for any further clues, including the missing spent cartridges.
(Edited by M. Asamba)
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