A Police Officer Attached To State House Spokesperson Hussein Mohammed on Sunday, March 23 shot and killed a man after a confrontation in Kawangware, Nairobi County.
In a police report seen by Nairobileo.co.ke, the officer reported to the Muthangari Police Station claiming that he had been attacked by three men and one of them tried to snatch his Ceska pistol.
The officer said he fired into the air severally to scare the attackers before he ran away to the station to report the incident.
“He alleges that today 23/3/2025 at around 2000hrs he alighted from a motorcycle at kwa Mungai within Amboseli jb mr 2344566 about 4km west of the station and as he was walking home he was confronted by three men not known to him. One of the men struggled and snatched his Ceska pistol s/no. F4899 but he took hold of it by the muzzle and eventually recaptured it back.
“One of the men blocked him and he shot severally in the air to scare them. He ran away and reported the same to Muthangari Police Station alleging he had sustained a fracture on the left hand and injury on the left shoulder,” the report read in part.
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However, officers from Muthangari Police Station who visited the scene found that the officer shot a man identified as Amos Langat severally on the stomach and chest after a confrontation.
Langat was rushed to Mary Immaculate Hospital but succumbed due to the injuries.
“NPS officers from Muthangari Police Station visited the scene and established that one Amos Langat a Kalenjin male adult aged about 35 years old was shot severally on the stomach and chest after a confrontation and was rushed to Mary Immaculate hospital where he passed on,” the police report added.
The body of the 35-year-old was moved to Chiromo Mortuary awaiting post-mortem.
Detectives from DCI have launched investigations into the incident with the pistol used by the officer and magazine loaded with three rounds of 9mm ammunition seized as an exhibit.
