Police in Thika have started an investigation after an angry mob killed the brother of a suspect who is accused of fatally stabbing another guy at the Kiandutu Slums in Thika Town on Monday Morning before fleeing for his life.
According to reports, Kelvin Kioko stabbed a middle-aged guy in the Mtatu A region at around three in the morning, abandoning him for dead for an undetermined cause, and then fled.
The victim's neighbors responded to his distress calls and took him to Thika Level 5 Hospital, but he was already dead when they got there.
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A enraged mob attempted to get revenge by going to the attacker's home in the nearby slum of Kianjau, but since he was not there, they assaulted his brother and sister.
The mother of the innocent son who was murdered at his house, Mary Wanjiku Muiruri, is now pleading with the security services to look into the incident and hold those responsible accountable.
“My son is a bodaboda guy who hustles around here and in Thika town, he was killed for no reason at all. His killers must be arrested and prosecuted,” she said.
Kioko is thought to be a prisoner who was sentenced to time in prison for narcotics trafficking.
in other news,A father has been detained by officers from the Wanguru police station in Mwea East, Kirinyaga County, on suspicion of defiling his two and a half-year-old girl.
According to reports, the mother of the child, who had a disagreement with her husband at the time of the incident, left the child behind.J ames Mutua of the Mwea East OCPD said that police had responded after receiving information from the public about the whereabouts of the father. he was arrested and frog matched to the police station.
the two year old is receiving treatment at the Kimbimbi Sub-County Hospital
