Assa Nyakundi Kibagedi,a city lawyer is under police custody for ‘accidentally’ shooting his son in their car while coming from church.
In a police statement seen by this writer, the lawyer says that he left ICC church Mombasa Road while driving his Toyota Axio (KCE 753B) with his son Joseph Nyakundi aged 29 years seated at the backseat.
“As he neared his house at Muthaiga North, near the Judicial Training Institute, at about 0100 hrs, he reached back to retrieve his Glock firearm loaded with 15 rounds of 9mm ammunition from the right pouch of the said motor vehicle to holster it,” reads the police report in part.
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He claimed to have accidentally shot once, hitting his son on the chest and immediately rushed him to Aga Khan Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
The police are investigating the incidence.
The firearm loaded with 14 rounds of 9mm ammunition and the car have been kept by the police. The body of the deceased is at Aga Khan Mortuary pending post mortem.
According to experts, Glocks operate a second trigger mechanism which is dangerous in itself as there’s never notice that the first trigger has been squeezed. Almost all cases of accidental discharge in Kenya involve Glocks.
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