Police officers on Wednesday rescued a 22-year old student from a gang of six in Githurai 44 area.
One thug was shot dead and five others sustained gunshot injuries after police officers busted them attacking the young man.
According to the police report, John Ndegwa, a student at Kiambu Institute of Science & Technology was accosted by a gang of six machete-wielding young men, who roughed him up thoroughly before stealing from him his mobile phone and Sh10,000 in cash.
Ndegwa told police that he was taking a stroll along Thika Superhighway towards Githurai after he dropped his brother’s resume at the Kenyatta University Teaching and Referral Hospital for a job consideration when he was attacked.
He did not realise that he had wandered into the Majengo area where small-time thugs had attempted to establish their local fiefdom.
"The thugs first asked the victim to buy them cigarettes and he obliged by giving them Sh100. They then left him to enter a nearby food kiosk and have lunch, before ungratefully attacking him after he left the kiosk," the police report said.
"Police officers who were on patrol immediately rushed to the scene after the victim raised alarm, accosting the thugs who took flights to different directions. However, one thug drew a homemade pistol capable of firing and shot at the fast-approaching constables, who immediately dashed down and wasted no time in returning fire, fatally wounding the suspect believed to be the gang’s commander."
The rest of the suspects managed to flee, with their bodies riddled with gunshot injuries.
Meanwhile, a mobile phone belonging to the suspect was recovered from the fatally wounded thug whose body is lying at the City mortuary pending identification.
Police have raised a caution to all medical practitioners to report anyone who walks into any medical facility seeking treatment for gunshot injuries.
