Police officers on the morning of Monday, August 16, 2021, gunned down a notorious criminal who has been leading a gang of thugs in terrorising residents of Dandora, Nairobi County.
The gangster only identified as Fidel, led a gang of 5 in staging attacks in the Nairobi Estate. He was cornered by officers this morning but defied orders to surrender, opting to engage in a shootout with the police. He was outwitted and gunned down.
"Fidel who has been engaging our men in a cat and mouse game for a while, was finally cornered at Joy Villa in Dandora, shortly after staging a robbery along Mwas road. Preliminary investigations and intelligence analysis had connected.
"Fidel and his gang to the spate of attacks that have rocked Nairobi’s Eastland's suburbs in recent days, targeting innocent civilians. It was just a matter of time before the long arm of the law caught up with him and brought him to justice," the DCI tweeted.
A firearm and two rounds of 9mm callibre, were recovered from the thug following the operation mounted in the wee hours of today morning.
According to the sleuths, two other thugs who were with Fidel at the time of the incident were lucky to escape the onslaught alive but with their bodies riddled with bullet wounds.
"Our Dandora based crime busters are on hot on their trail. Meanwhile, one more robbery with violence criminal was fatally wounded in Githurai, as police intensify a crackdown on illegal gangs terrorizing city residents," DCI stated.
"The gangster who was armed with a pistol was part of a six-man gang that was robbing pedestrians off their valuables, at the Githurai bridge along Thika superhighway.
"Officers who were on routine patrol along the busy highway last night, were responding to distress calls from members of the public when they cornered the thugs at around 9:30pm. As five of the thugs took flight to the nearby Majengo settlements to evade arrest, the fatally wounded gangster opted to challenge the marksmanship skills of our agents by firing two rounds from his browning pistol. That miscalculated move, sealed his fate," DCi revealed.
He was killed on the spot by the police officers. Crime scene personnel based at Kasarani documented the scene and handed over the recovered pistol to ballistic experts at the DCI headquarters, for further examination.
Police recovered crude weapons including machetes and swords that were left behind by the thugs that managed to flee.
Bodies of the dead gangsters were moved to City mortuary pending identification by their kin.
