New CCTV footage from Pipeline Estate has revealed what are believed to be the final moments of 12-year-old Patience Mumbe before her tragic death.
Multiple cameras installed in shops around the neighbourhood have provided detectives with crucial clues as investigations intensify.
According to the footage, Mumbe was first seen on Thursday, December 4, at around 6:30 pm running from her home.
A camera at a local shop captured her moving quickly before disappearing down a path about 200 metres away.
She then emerged on another road leading towards the Taj Mall bus stage, where a second CCTV camera recorded her walking briskly.
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At one point, she looked back, seemingly checking whether she was being followed, before rushing towards the bus stop.
This marked the last time she was seen alive in Pipeline.
Two days later, her body was discovered in a ditch in KAA Estate, approximately five kilometres from where she was last captured on camera and about one kilometre from the Embakasi Police Station.
In addition to analysing the CCTV footage, officers are conducting a detailed site analysis by tracing all vehicles and mobile phones that were in the area on Saturday morning, December 6, hours before the body was discovered.
A post-mortem examination to determine the cause of death is scheduled for Tuesday.
Residents who first came across the body described the horrifying moment of discovery.
"There were some children who were playing ball here; the ball fell in the ditch, and when they went to pick it up, they found the body of a schoolchild, a Grade 7 pupil. They alerted the watchmen, and that’s how we received the report and rushed here.
"We examined the body, but from the face we couldn’t tell whether the child was from Embakasi," Henry Kibet, an Embakasi resident, explained.
Another resident, Jane Wanjiku, called for justice and raised concerns over the safety of children in the area.
"We want justice for that girl because, as parents, we are also afraid. There is a primary school here, and our daughters pass through this area. We also cannot use this path at night because we are scared; we don’t have security lights," she said.
This comes barely a week after CCTV footage showed the final movements of a man who died after falling from a 14th-floor apartment in Kilimani.
According to the surveillance recordings, Festus Oromo arrives at room B1406 on the 14th floor on Friday, November 28, at 4:07 PM.
Twelve minutes later, at exactly 4:19 PM, a man believed to be a delivery rider, dressed in black and with his face obscured by a scarf, approaches the door, hands over a package to Festus, and leaves immediately.
Further activity is captured at 1:06 AM when a man identified as Patrick, currently detained at Kilimani Police Station, is seen stepping out of the same apartment.
He remains outside for one minute before re-entering.
Seven minutes later, at 1:13 AM, Patrick emerges again, this time accompanied by Festus, who is seen holding Patrick by the shoulders while Patrick carries a drink in his right hand.
Festus briefly enters the apartment before returning to the doorway, where he speaks with Patrick before leaving together.
At 1:15 AM, Festus returns alone, knocks on the door of B1406, and walks toward the lift area before returning one minute later.
At 1:16 AM, he enters the apartment, where a visible scaffold between Festus and a woman now identified as Lilian Beki ensues.
The door closes as the confrontation continues inside.
At exactly 1:57 AM, 41 minutes later, security cameras capture the moment Festus’s lifeless body lands on the roof of a white vehicle parked on the ground floor.
Night guards confirmed he was unresponsive, a situation later confirmed by detectives who arrived at the scene.
