Slain Kitengela police officer Manaseh Ithiru died of excessive bleeding, postmortem on his body showed.
The autopsy was conducted on Friday at the Shallom mortuary by pathologist Dr.Simon Omuok.
It also revealed Ithiru had excessive bleeding due to blunt force trauma.
Also there was a sign of gun shot wound in the upper side of the right arm. It is suspected he was shot by the fellow cop in the scuffle.
Present during the exercise were the deceased family members.
The scene was revisited and the CCTV footage retrieved to help in the murder probe.
The body has been transfered and escorted to Kibugi mortuary in Kirinyaga under the request of the family members.
There was a tragedy at an apartment in Kitengela, Kajiado County when the police officer was killed in a fight with a fellow police officer over a woman.
The incident happened on Thursday August 7 night after constable Ithiru who was attached to Kitengela police station was thrown out of the fourth floor of an apartment he was with a woman believed to be his girlfriend.
Ithiru had earlier at about 7 pmtaken a bodaboda to the house of the woman identified as Irene Wavinya Nzioka on Deliverance Road, police said.
He was ushered in and enjoyed his time with the woman for about three hours before someone knocked the door.
On opening, it emerged the guest was a fellow police officer, a sergeant attached to the local Critical Infrastructure Police Unit based at the Export Processing Zone in Athi River.
The guest is also a boyfriend to the same woman where constable Ithiru was. He arrived without notice, neighbours said. The neighbours said the knew she hosted both at different times.
Ithiru had asked his rider to be on standby as he would call him to pick him back to his residency. That did not happen.
When the guest stormed into the house with the woman pleading for peace, a fight broke out between the deceased officer and the now assailant.
The fight moved to the balcony where Ithiru was pushed down and fell off to the parking lot, dying, police said.
His body was found in a pool of blood at the parking lot minutes after the fatal fall. This happened as the woman screamed for help from the neighbours.
Police were called to the scene and announced the body had multiple injuries in the head and moved it to the mortuary where the autopsy was conducted.
The sergeant of police and the woman at the centre of the saga were arrested pending investigations into the murder incident, police said.
Police said the incident is isolated adding that is the nature of the society even as they called for caution among fellow officers.
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