Military personnel shoot, kill suspect for stealing tv set at Kahawa Barracks
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A suspect was shot and killed after he allegedly stole a tv set and tried to escape from the Kahawa Barracks, Nairobi.
The suspect was alone and is said to have broken into a house in the barracks and stole a 32 inch tv and two six kilos of gas cylinder and tried to escape through a fence there.
Military personnel responded to screams and shot him fatally. The body had bullet wounds in the forehead and hip area. Officials said the incident happened on Tuesday morning.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy. Military installations and residences are heavily guarded by armed personnel.
Elsewhere in Mandera’s Soko Mbuzi area, a member of the National Police Reserve shot and killed a man he claimed he knew had committed an offence.
The man was shot in the thigh and bled to death. The NPR was later arrested for grilling for murder.
Police said he was disarmed pending other procedures. The body was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy and other procedures following the December 23, 2025 incident.
Elsewhere in Modika area, Garissa County, the body of a man was found lying on the roadside after a suspected murder.
The man seemed to have been hit in the neck and head. He had marks of strangulation when the body was discovered. The motive of the murder was not established. The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy and other procedures, police said.
And 21 people were arrested during a protest against the death of a man in Garissa Town. Police said one Ahmed Sheikh Omar was involved in a fatal road accident on December 22, 2025 while escaping from a team of police who had stopped him as he ferried uncustomed goods.
However, locals claimed he was killed by police. This prompted a protest along Kismayu Road where a group blocked the road for long by burning logs and tyres.
During the December 23 incident a government vehicle was hit by a stone and had its windshield damaged.
Police responded by arresting 21 people. An autopsy showed the man died out of trauma force on the head consistent with an accident.