The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) detectives from the Operations Directorate have gunned down a suspected gang member who was found with a pistol that was stolen from Vihiga Police Station OCS in December 2023.
In a statement on Tuesday, April 9, DCI said a gang attacked the OCS while on Patrol stabbing him severally before stealing the firearm which was loaded with 15 rounds of ammunition.
“To get the firearm, the ruthless gang had on the said date waylaid the Chief Inspector as he parked his car in Vihiga's Majengo market, descending on him with daggers and leaving him for the dead. They then disappeared with his Jericho pistol loaded with 15 rounds of ammunition,” read the statement in part.
After days of surveillance, detectives responded to an intelligence report received through the DCI hotline from an anonymous caller who reported seeing a suspicious car with three armed men at KU Farm in Mwiki.
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The sleuths while approaching the scene realized it was the same suspects who had evaded several police dragnets after staging some attacks around Nairobi.
The suspected gang members were asked to surrender but two of them got away while the third suspect who was in possession of the stolen gun tried to engage in a shoutout with the detectives before being shot dead.
“On challenging the miscreants to surrender, two of the three took to their heels as the shot suspect brandished the firearm for a battle of guns and was gunned down. His accomplices made it to the populated shopping center and holed up but the police are hot on their trail,” DCI stated.
The officers impounded a Nissan Note KBZ 985T which the suspects were using alongside other exhibits that were found stashed in it.
The suspect's body has been moved to the City Mortuary pending identification.
