CCTV footage has emerged showing the moment Makadara DCI officer David Mayaka was shot dead by gunmen in Kayole's Mihango area on Tuesday night.
The disturbing clip also captured the moment police officers arrived at the scene of the shooting shortly afterwards but drove off without offering help despite desperate pleas from the slain detective's wife.
The couple had stopped in the Hurlingham area to fix a puncture when three men on a motorcycle pulled up and shot them.
The officer is heard in the footage pleading with the armed thugs to take whatever they wanted but one is heard saying "piga yeye".
"Tafadhali shika, shika, please!" the officer is heard saying.
Four shots rent the air in the ensuing scuffle before the thugs sped away on a motorbike leaving the wife screaming for help.
She had been shot in the thigh after being robbed of her mobile phone.
"Amegongwa hii side amelalia, anableed sana nisaidieni tumpeleke Komarock Modern (hospital)," the wife is heard pleading with first responders who had started milling at the scene.
Moments later, a police Landcruiser arrived at the scene sparking some hope in the injured wife's side.
"Hata polisi ndio hawa. Aki nisaidieni, ni askari kama nyinyi....tuko na watoto wadogo. Tumegongwa na vijana watatu kwa pikipiki. Nisaidieni hata mimi nimengongwa," she is heard pleading with the officers.
But after momentarily stopping at the scene, the Landcruiser drove off.
