Male
Location of Incident:
Kajiado County, Kajiado North subcounty,Ngong Suswa road.
Manner of Death:
Shot
Perpetrator:
Emma Sopiata attached to Gilgil Weighbridge police station
Status of Case:
No arrest
Date of Incident:
Occupation:
Police officer
A police officer manning a mobile weighbridge along Ngong-Suswa road accidentally shot dead her colleague during a scuffle with a motorist who had refused to heed their order to stop. According to a police report filed at Ngong Police Station, a team of security and weighbridge officers gave the lorry driver a chase using a Toyota Hilux Double Cabin car when he defied their directive. Upon reaching Kimuka trading centre, the driver stopped and began reversing his lorry to hit their vehicle resulting in a scuffle that saw Police Constable Emma Sopiato shoot her colleague Fanuel Abongo. “The driver of the said lorry on being flanked to stop he defied the order and instead reversed to hit the occupants, that during the commotion, Emma who was seated at the back right of the driver discharged her riffle an AK 47 S/NO 4915784. which hit NO.95790 CPL Fanuel Abongo a colleague on the right side of ribs and exited through the left side of ribs,” The police OB report reads.
