One robbery with violence criminal was fatally wounded in Githurai, as police intensify a crackdown on illegal gangs terrorizing city residents.
The gangster who was armed with a pistol was part of a six-man gang that was robbing pedestrians off their valuables, at the Githurai bridge along Thika superhighway.
Officers who were on routine patrol along the busy highway last night, were responding to distress calls from members of the public when they cornered the thugs at around 9:30pm.
As five of the thugs took flight to the nearby Majengo settlements to evade arrest, the fatally wounded gangster opted to challenge the marksmanship skills of our agents by firing two rounds from his browning pistol. That miscalculated move, sealed his fate.
The Kasarani based detectives responded decisively, killing him on the spot. Crime scene personnel based at Kasarani documented the scene and handed over the recovered pistol to ballistic experts at our headquarters, for further examination.
Crude weapons including machetes and swords that were left behind by the fleeing miscreants were also recovered.
Bodies of the dead gangsters were moved to City mortuary pending identification by their kin.
