A police officer who has been on the run for more than two months was Tuesday arrested over the murder of his colleague in Luanda, Vihiga County.
Police said constable Kevin Omondi was arrested in Luanda area over the murder of his colleague identified as Constable Nicholas Samoei on August 22, 2025.
Detectives were informed the assailant was within the area before they confronted him in a house and arrested him.
The assailant also stole and escaped with a rifle belonging to the deceased colleague after the shooting incident at Esirabe Primary School, police said.
The weapon is yet to be recovered and efforts to get it were ongoing. Police said constable Samoei was shot at close range once and in the head.
But 26 spent cartridges were found outside where the body lay and police are investigating to know the motive behind the shooting.
Samoei’s body was found in a room next to a store with several bags of government fertilizer that he and the assailant were guarding, police said.
It is not clear what transpired to lead to the shooting.
The deceased’s CZ rifle was missing and it is suspected it was stolen by the assailant, police said.
Police said the two had been assigned to guard the store at the school which had bags of subsidized fertilizer.
Police said they recovered 20 spent cartridges of 9mm from outside the room where the body of Samoei lay.
The officers also recovered six spent cartridges of 7.62 special and one live of the same caliber outside the school compound.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy and other procedures. The hunt on the suspected assailant cop is ongoing, police said.
The incident came weeks after another cop killed two women in an attack in Kanyonyoo market, Kitui County.
Police said the officer was yet to be found on following the August 4 double murder and efforts to trace him were ongoing.
This was after he dropped his AK47 rifle with 26 bullets in a thicket and escaped on foot from the small town.
The latest incident could be linked to growing trauma among many police officers in the country.
As part of efforts to address the trend, police authorities have launched counselling services, and the National Police Service Commission has established a unit and staffed it to attend to their demanding situation.
The counselling unit, among other things, evaluates, designs and leads an outreach programme that helps prevent mental health and substance abuse.
Meanwhile, a police officer died after being involved in an accident along Kapenguria-Kitale highway.
Constable Benson Limo of Kagwi police station in Kiambu was on leave when the incident happened on October 31, 2025. He was hit by a speeding car while on a motorcycle, police said.
He sustained serious head injuries and was taken to a hospital in Kitale where he succumbed to the same on November 3, 2025, police said.
The body was removed to the said hospital mortuary for preservation pending post mortem
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