At the young age of 21 Jedida Akinyi is now a widow.
Her husband Derick Joe Adongo, 24, was allegedly shot dead by police officers in Kondele during the anti-government protests last week.
She got a phone call that her husband had been shot in Nyawita area. Akinyi rushed to the scene and found his body on the ground.
She has been left with a seven-month old baby and says she does not know how to take care of the baby all by herself.
"All I need is justice for my husband and the police officers involved brought to book," she said.
Akinyi is seeking assistance to give her husband a decent burial.
She was one among many other families who joined the Kisumu county leadership at Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital to light candles in memory of those killed and in solidarity with victims still in the wards.
Residents of the lakeside city are still in shock even as leaders and protesters gathered to mourn the victims of police brutality during last week's Azimio demos.
Governor Anyang Nyong’o on Thursday last week said police deployed to quell the peaceful protests over the worsening cost of living unleashed terror on the people of Kisumu.
Nyong’o said innocent residents were either killed or maimed in one of the worst police brutalities ever witnessed in the county.
He said police raided houses in residential areas, flushed out the people including the sick, the old, women and children and attacked them mercilessly.
"This was a continuation of police attacks on the people since Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Alliance started calling for public protests," he said in a statement read on his behalf by the county assembly speaker Elisha Oraro.
As of Saturday afternoon, health facilities in Kisumu had attended to 107 patients injured during the protests.
Out of these, 58 were admitted in various hospitals across the county.
"Sadly and very regrettably, 91 patients recorded a history of police assault resulting in the injuries. And of concern and utter shock is that out of those attended to, 47 had gunshot wounds which required inpatient admission and surgical procedures to save their lives," Nyong'o said.
As part of part of the vigil for victims of the police brutality the governor instructed the Department of Medical Services to waive all the medical fees for all the victims in all county hospitals, including 40 patients at JOOTRH.
He said the waiver applies to medical services offered at all public hospitals in the county and runs until July 30.
"We have also waived the mortuary fees for the preservation of bodies of those killed during the demonstrations," the governor stated.
The governor asked the Kenya Kwanza government to respect human rights and stop denying Kenyans their right to protest the many injustices being meted against them.
He stated that the government must stop targeting only one community.
"The politics of ethnic profiling has always been the undoing of all the progressive changes that democratic social forces have brought to this nation," the governor said.
"I wish to reiterate once again that our people need justice not brutality. Luo lives matter."
Oraro said on Friday county officials will meet families of the victims of police brutality and urgedg them to ensure that they record their names.
"We want to assure the family that we are here for them and any other case that needs to be addressed they should reach out to us, and the Friday vigil will be there day because we will listen to the various challenges they have.
