Detectives
are hunting for a gunman who shot and killed a 25-year-old
man in a robbery incident in Eastleigh, Nairobi.
The drama was partially captured on security cameras on Saturday, November 9 night.
The family of Abdirahim Abdullahi Ibrahim, 25, said he was
meeting his girlfriend on Saturday night in one of the streets in Eastleigh
when an unknown assailant approached them and pulled the trigger at point
blank.
Security cameras captured the shooting which
showed the assailant pulling the trigger at close range.
Abdirahim was shot below the ear, with the
bullet exiting on the other side of the head.
The assailant then made away with his mobile phone, leaving the lady he was meeting stranded at the scene.
The CCTV cameras showed the gunman in a cap approach from behind and reaching his gun before he moved closer to where the two were standing and pulled the trigger.
A man who was standing about two meters away was seen running
away upon witnessing the shooting.
The gunman then reached out to a mobile phone that the man
had and walked away.
According to the family, Abdirahim had been
seeing the lady who works in one of the restaurants in Eastleigh as a waitress,
and the two had decided to meet on Saturday night when the incident happened.
The motive is yet to be known but police say the
target was the deceased.
The lady reported the matter to the Shauri Moyo
Police Station.
A postmortem conducted at the City Mortuary with
the request of the Shauri Moyo detectives revealed that Abdirahim died due to
excessive blood loss following a gunshot wound to the neck.
The deceased was buried Sunday at the Lang'ata
Cemetery in Nairobi.
The motive of the shooting is yet to be known. No arrest has
been made so far, police said adding a team is pursuing the killer.
Eastleigh has been in the limelight over fatal
incidents.
The incident comes days after a family of three
was brutally murdered by a suspect who has since been arrested.
The suspect, Hashim Dagane Muhumed, 34, is
believed to have killed a mother, her daughter and niece, and later killed a
lady in a rented apartment in Lavington.
Police are investigating if he was a terror
recruiter.
It emerged that he fraudulently obtained his identification cards.
