Details on city lawyer shot dead in Karen

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A lawyer based in Nairobi was on Tuesday shot in his car as he drove home along Magadi Road in Nairobi.

Lawyer Mathew Kyalo Mbobu was also the former chairman of the Political Parties Disputes Tribunal.

He was also a law lecturer at the University of Nairobi, officials said. He was shot while in a traffic jam by gunmen who were riding on a motorcycle, witnesses and police said.

The motive of the attack was not immediately known. He was alone in his four-wheel-drive car at the time of the shooting, police said.

His body lay on the driver’s seat after the shooting as police rushed to the scene, less than a kilometer from the Galleria Mall.

Police said the gunmen shattered his windshield before shooting him at least three times in the chin.

The suspects rode off after the incident.

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