A police officer on the rank of inspector was stoned to death and his firearm stolen after conducting a raid on one of the illicit brew den in Oyude market, Rarieda sub-county.
According to reports, the police officer, Simon Mwangi Kariuki was attached to Ndori police station. He and his colleague Wilfred Maina left the station to conduct an intelligence operations.
This was after they were informed that Caren Okumu alias Nyaseme was in possession of illicit alcohol. They arrived and arrested the said lady Nyaseme with 21 sachets of 100ml each and 4 packets of Supermatch cigarettes for export.
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However, the suspect raised an alarm before rowdy youth accosted the officers and started pelting them with stones and crude weapons thereby fatally injuring the inspector of police and killing him on the spot.
Inspector Kariuki’s pistol with unknown number of ammunition was robbed off from him as he is said to have fired five shots in the air to scare away the attackers in vain before he succumbed to injuries.
Maina, his partner with whom they had raided tge den together is said to have managed to escape with injuries on his right shoulder.
The scene where the police inspector was stoned to death was visited by a team of security personnel led by Siaya County Police Commander Cleti Kimaiyo before the scene was processed and the body moved to Lwak mission hospital mortuary to await postmortem.
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One suspect namely Caren Okumu has been arrested and is assisting the police with investigations as a search for the firearm and hunt for more suspects continue.
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