Slain Kitengela police officer Manaseh Ithiru died of excessive bleeding, postmortem on his body showed.
He died Thursday night in a scuffle with a fellow police
officer in a woman’s house in Kitengela Town.
This was after he fell off the fourth floor of an
apartment where he had been following a confrontation.
The autopsy was conducted on Friday at the Shallom Hospital
mortuary by pathologist Dr.Simon Omuok.
It revealed Ithiru had excessive bleeding due to blunt force
trauma.
Also, according to the autopsy, there was a sign of a gunshot
wound on the upper side of the right arm. It is suspected he was shot by the
fellow cop in a scuffle that led to his death.
Present during the exercise were the deceased family
members.
The scene was revisited on Friday, and the CCTV footage was retrieved
to help in the murder probe.
The body was transferred and escorted to Kibugi mortuary in
Kirinyaga at the request of the family members.
There was a tragedy at an apartment in Kitengela, Kajiado
County, when the police officer was killed in a fight with a fellow police
officer over a woman.
The incident happened on Thursday, August 7 night after
Constable Ithiru, who was attached to Kitengela police station, was thrown out of
the fourth floor of an apartment where he was with a woman believed to be his
girlfriend.
Ithiru had earlier, at about 7 pm taken a bodaboda to the
house of the woman on Deliverance Road, police said.
He was ushered in and spent about three hours with the woman before someone knocked on the door.
Upon opening, it became apparent that the guest was a fellow police officer, a sergeant assigned to the local Critical Infrastructure Police Unit, based at the Export Processing Zone in Athi River.
The guest is also the boyfriend of the same woman. He arrived
without notice, neighbours said. The neighbours said they knew she hosted both
at different times.
Ithiru had asked his rider to be on standby as he would call
him to pick him back from his residency. That did not happen.
When the guest stormed into the house with the woman
pleading for peace, a fight broke out between the deceased officer and the now
assailant.
The fight moved to the balcony where Ithiru was pushed down
and fell off to the parking lot, dying, police said.
His body was found in a pool of blood at the parking lot
minutes after the fatal fall. This happened as the woman screamed for help from
the neighbours.
Police were called to the scene and announced the body had
multiple injuries to the head and moved it to the mortuary, where the autopsy
was conducted.
The sergeant of police and the woman at the centre of the
saga were arrested pending investigations into the murder incident, police
said.
Police said the incident is isolated, adding that it is the
nature of the society, even as they called for caution among fellow officers.
