{"id":13509,"date":"2024-11-23T23:39:43","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T20:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/?p=13509"},"modified":"2024-11-23T23:39:43","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T20:39:43","slug":"man-shot-dead-while-stealing-police-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/man-shot-dead-while-stealing-police-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Shot Dead While Stealing Police Car"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police officers in Loitokitok in Kajiado County killed a suspect who was accused of striking two residents to death with a hammer.<\/span><\/p>\n

David Maina Kabuthia, Loitokitok Police Commander, confirmed the incident, pointing out that the suspect was shot dead while attempting to steal a police car to use it as a getaway vehicle.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Kabuthia, the deceased was trailing the first victim to his house, armed with a hammer.<\/span><\/p>\n

The suspect was accused of forcing himself inside one of the victim’s houses before striking him on the head, killing him instantly.<\/span><\/p>\n

Following the incident, the victim’s children raised an alarm, alerting their neighbour who resided 20 metres from their house.<\/span><\/p>\n

In turn, the neighbour rushed to the house and found the suspect armed with the crude weapon standing over the body.<\/span><\/p>\n

Commander Kabuthia added that the neighbour attempted to flee but was caught by the suspect, who struck him with the hammer multiple times, killing him on the spot too.<\/span><\/p>\n

Police officers who rushed to the scene demanded the suspect to surrender, but he resisted arrest and instead aimed the weapon at the detectives.<\/span><\/p>\n

He then rushed towards a police vehicle parked on the side of the road and attempted to flee the scene.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the commander, police opened fire, killing him instantly.<\/span><\/p>\n

“The police had no other choice but to shoot this person dead,” Commander Kabuthia highlighted.<\/span><\/p>\n

Detectives launched investigations into the incident and sought to determine the motive behind the suspect killing the two victims.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Police officers in Loitokitok in Kajiado County killed a suspect who was accused of striking two residents to death with a hammer. David Maina Kabuthia, Loitokitok Police Commander, confirmed the incident, pointing out that the suspect was shot dead while attempting to steal a police car to use it as a getaway vehicle. According to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1905,1953],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-stories"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pej6K6-3vT","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-content\/uploads\/Police-car.jpg?fit=1210%2C806&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}