A man attacked and killed his father in a domestic feud in Gatukuyu village, Gatundu, Kiambu County.
Police said John Njuguna Ngugi died in the hospital on arrival.
He succumbed to his injuries following the October 20, 2025, incident. The assailant used a piece of wood in the attack, police said. The body was moved to a local mortuary pending an autopsy.
The suspect was later arrested in the area by locals and handed over to the police.
A piece of wood suspected to have been used in the commission of the offence was also recovered at the scene, police said.
Murder cases have been on the rise in the area, most of them linked to land disputes.
Police say they are solving the cases
that have been reported.
Some of the cases are pending before courts, while others are yet to be solved, police said.
Elsewhere, a 44-year-old man died after being attacked by two men in an altercation outside a bar in the Kyumbi area, Machakos County.
The deceased is said to have been engaged in a confrontation with two other men before he was fatally injured on Monday, October 20, 2025, at night.
A guard at the bar witnessed the incident before Samual Mutinda collapsed and died at the scene.
The assailants escaped the scene, police said as they moved the body to the mortuary pending an autopsy.
Police said on Tuesday they were pursuing the said assailants.
Elsewhere in Banisa, Mandera County, one Mumad Mohamed Hussein Haji, 28, was shot and killed in an attack by gunmen.
The victim was grazing his father’s livestock when he was shot at close range in the chest and right arm.
The police suspect the assailants were on a retaliatory mission. The body was moved to a local mortuary pending autopsy and burial. Police said no arrest had been made over the shooting.
Such attacks have been on the rise in the region over grazing fields and other scarce resources.
Police and a section of
local elders are working to solve the saga.
And in the Santon area, Kasarani, Nairobi, one Frankline Gatukuyi Waweru, 34, was found lying dead in a pool of blood after murdered.
Police said the deceased, who was a boda boda rider, was attacked by the assailants he had carried and who had posed as pillion passengers.
The body had three deep cuts in the chest and shoulders.
The deceased had ferried a pillion passenger who was joined by others on two different motorcycles. They then attacked the man, stabbing him fatally before they escaped with his motorcycle.
Police were called to the scene and moved the body to the mortuary pending an autopsy and other procedures.
Cases where boda bodas are violently stolen from riders have been on the rise amid calls from police to cooperate with their attackers.
Police are investigating the incidents.
