Help us trace Rex Maasai's killer - IPOA urges Kenyans

Ipoa said the information will help bring closure to the family, friends and contirbute to police accountability.

In Summary
  • To offer information you can call their toll-free number 1559 (free of charge) or 0204906000.
  • Rex Kanyike Masai, 29, was shot dead during Thursday's anti-finance bill protests.
Rex Kanyike Masai.
Rex Kanyike Masai.
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The Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) has urged witnesses to bring forth any information that can help advance investigations into the fatal shooting of Rex Kanyike Masai on June 20.

Rex Kanyike Masai, 29, was shot dead during Thursday's anti-finance bill protests.

IPOA said this information will help bring closure to the family and friends and contribute to police accountability. 

"IPOA appeals for witness accounts for any one who may have witnessed the fatal shooting of Rex Masai to advance its investigations," the post read.

"To offer information you can call toll free through 1559 (free of charge) or 0204906000." 

The shooting took place at about 7 pm along Moi Avenue.

An aerial video captured the moment the victim was shot.

A group of protesters had been pushed by police from parts of Kenyatta Avenue, City Hall Way and other places when they gathered at  Moi Avenue.

At the Avenue, they were dancing and chanting anti-Finance Bill slogans when sounds of gunshots rented the air.

Rex was hit in the leg and fell on the road crying for help.

Other protesters stopped to help him. He was rushed to Bliss Hospital Moi Avenue where he was pronounced dead while being attended to.

Officials at the clinic said a patient was brought into the facility by members of the public while unconscious with an injury on the thigh of his left leg but succumbed to the same while undergoing treatment.

The body was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy.

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