- According to witnesses, one of the friends who was in their company asked the driver to stop to answer a call of nature.
- It is at this point that unknown people attacked the other guy prompting the deceased to rush to his defense.
A General Service Unit (GSU) police officer was Monday morning killed in Manyatta slums in Kisumu after being stabbed.
Constable Calvince Ouma Omondi, 24 was stabbed in the neck and chest during a scuffle with people known to him, police said.
At the time of his death, he was attached to the Turkwel GSU camp in Turkana County.
The officer, who hails from Kolwa in Kisumu East Sub County was on leave.
It’s understood that he was with friends when he was attacked and killed.
The deceased was in a vehicle and were escorting a lady friend to her house within Manyatta when he was confronted and stabbed in the chest.
According to witnesses, one of the friends who was in their company asked the driver to stop to answer a call of nature.
It is at this point that unknown people attacked the other guy prompting the deceased to rush to his defense.
He was stabbed in the chest once and died on the spot.
The single stab left a gaping wound on his chest as the officer bled profusely to death. He had another wound in the neck.
A second man was stabbed and seriously wounded in the drama. He was admitted to hospital in stable condition, police said.
No arrest has been made so far but police said they are looking for known suspects over the incident.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy.
The incident comes a day after a police officer was also stabbed and killed at the parking lot of a bar in the Embakasi area, Kisumu.
Detectives are combing in estates in the city in the hunt for the group of four believed to have stabbed the police constable.
The body of constable Nicholas Koech, 30 was found lying in a pool of blood long after he had been killed Saturday, August 10 morning.
He had been stabbed in the stomach and chest.
The motive of the confrontation and subsequent fatal stabbing is yet to be known, police said adding they are pursuing crucial clues.
Police said they have talked to several witnesses as part of the probe into the death.
They are however yet to find the real killers.
He was among a group of revellers who had attended a Kalenjin Night event at the bar and they were leaving when a commotion broke out at the parking lot.
Witnesses informed police of the stabbing minutes after it had happened.
The security told police they did not know what triggered the fight and subsequent stabbing.
It was then he checked and realized a man was on the ground screaming for help.
Police were called and confirmed the deceased was a police officer attached to police headquarters Jogoo House.
Those behind the attack were missing.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy and other investigations.
Police described Koech as a dedicated officer and vowed justice in his death.