Tragedy as cop is killed in fight with colleague over woman in Kitengela
FILE IMAGE OF A POLICE LINE
There was a tragedy at an apartment in Kitengela, Kajiado County when a 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 Manaseh 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 pm taken 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 pending autopsy.
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.
Elsewhere in Meru’s Ntaakira area, a juvenile girl was found murdered and her body abandoned on the roadside. Police said they are investigating murder in the incident. It is not clear who was behind the murder and the motive.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy and identification.