A police officer with the elite presidential escort unit has died by suicide in his house in Juja, Kiambu County.
Constable Samuel Ngatia is said to have shot himself in the head on Monday. He died on the spot.
Ngatia was attached to Deputy President William Ruto’s security team.
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The motive behind the incident is yet to be known and police are conducting investigations.
The deceased was alone in the house located within the General Service Unit’s Recce squad camp along Kenyatta Road when he committed the act.
He used his pistol to blow up his head and preliminary findings show the bullet entered on the right side and exited on the left side, officials who visited the scene said.
A Jericho pistol loaded with 13 bullets and a Trevor Sub Machine Gun with two magazines loaded with 30 bullets were found in the house.
Police also recovered two spent cartridges and one bullet head.
Ngatia, 35, had two children. He had reportedly separated from his wife two years ago, a family friend said.
