A suspect was shot and killed while attempting to vandalize a public water tank with a group of accomplices in a village in Thika, Kiambu County.
According to police, the incident occurred on the morning of Sunday, December 15, in the Athena area. Authorities were alerted to a group of about five individuals dismantling a water tank.
Officers on patrol responded to the scene, catching the suspects in the act. When ordered to surrender, the gang reportedly advanced toward the officers wielding crude weapons.
This prompted an officer to fire three warning shots using an alibi rifle.
During the confrontation, one suspect was fatally shot while the others managed to flee.
At the scene, police recovered tools used in the vandalism, including two spanners, nuts, and bolts.
The deceased's body was moved to the mortuary for identification and an autopsy. Meanwhile, the search for the remaining accomplices is ongoing.
Meanwhile, the Directorate of Criminal Investigation(DCI) was Friday granted five days to detain five suspects linked to the kidnapping and defilement of a juvenile.
This is after DCI detective Corporal Irene
Karegi sought 14 days to allow her to complete the investigation.
Karegi told senior Principal Magistrate Gilbert
Shikwe that they needed more time to conduct an age assessment on the
minor and take a DNA test to establish whether the minor had been defiled by
the time she was rescued.
"This Honorable Court be pleased to issue
custodial orders that the Respondent herein be detained for a period of
fourteen (14) days from today at Kilimani Police Station in Nairobi to allow
the applicant and or any other police officer and investigator(s), attached to
it complete investigations on cases of defilement contrary to section 8(1)(3)
of sexual offences act No.3 of 2006 and kidnapping contrary to section 257 of the
penal code Cap 63 laws of Kenya," read the court documents.
According to the police, the suspects are
being accused of allegedly holding the juvenile in an apartment in Nairobi
West. The juvenile went missing on December 7.
The mother of the minor, said she had tried to
trace her daughter through friends but was unsuccessful.
"When she couldn't find her, she decided to
seek police assistance,” police said."
Police investigations led to the rescue of the
juvenile at the apartment, where officers found her in the company
of the suspects.
