VIEWER DISCRETION: POLICE OFFICER KILLED BY PEDESTRIAN HE WAS ARRESTING

MOMBASA COUNTY

MOMBASA SUB-COUNTY

MAKUPA POLICE STATION

SUB: MURDER INCIDENT REPORT INVOLVING A POLICE OFFICER.

REFER MY OB.NO.64/27/02/2023 AT 1911 HRS (.)IT WAS REPORTED BY NO.63805 SGT MARTIN OJWANG WHO WAS CONTROLLING TRAFFIC WITHIN BUXTON JUNCTION MAP REF 723050 2KMS NORTH OF THE STATION THAT AT ABOUT 1630HRS THERE WAS AN INCIDENT INVOLVING A POLICE OFFICER. OCS MAKUPA C.I KIPRUTO, IP FRANCIS MWANGI OC TRAFFIC AND OTHER OFFICERS FROM THE STATION RUSHED TO THE SCENE. WHERE IT WAS ESTABLISHED THAT THE DECEASED NO.73449 PC JULIUS MARWA,WHILE ON DUTY AT THE SAID JUNCTION, STOPPED A MOTOR VEHICLE REG.NO KDD 986D TOYOTA RACTIS SILVER IN COLOUR FOR TRAFFIC CHECK. THE DRIVER ONE OSMAN JAMA ABDI WAS ASKED BY THE OFFICER TURN OFF THE ENGINE TO ALLOW THE OFFICER CONDUCT A NORMAL TRAFFIC CHECK BUT HE DECLINED. THE ACTION OF THE DRIVER PROMPTED THE OFFICER TO OPEN THE DRIVER'S DOOR WITH INTENT TO TURN OFF THE IGNITION BUT UNEXPECTEDLY THE DRIVER GRABBED THE OFFICER'S HAND AND TRIED TO PULL HIM INSIDE THE VEHICLE BEFORE DRIVING OFF AT HIGH SPEED WHILE THE OFFICER'S FEET WERE DRAGGING ON THE TARMAC FOR ABOUT 200M. SHORTLY AFTER, THE OFFICER WAS PUSHED OUT OF THE MOVING VEHICLE AND HE WAS RAN OVER BY THE REAR RIGHT WHEEL. THE OFFICER SUSTAINED SERIOUS HEAD INJURY AND MULTIPLE FRUCTURES ON THE PELVIC. HE WAS RUSHED TO JOCHAM HOSPITAL WHERE

HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD ON ARRIVAL. BODY LYING AT THE SAME HOSPITAL MORTUARY PENDING POSTMORTEM. THE VEHICLE WAS LATER TRACED AT A BASEMENT PARKING WITHIN BEACH ROAD ESTATE IN NYALI AND THE SUSPECT WAS FOUND HAVING LOCKED HIMSELF INSIDE THE VEHICLE. THE SUSPECT WAS ARRESTED AND THE MOTOR VEHICLE TOWED TO MAKUPA POLICE STATION AWAITING FURTHER POLICE ACTION.

MORE PROGRESS REPORT TO FOLLOW. DCI MOMBASA URBAN DEALING.

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