Police shot dead a woman and injured a man in an incident of mistaken identity at City Park, Nairobi.
The shooting happened at about 10 am when the two were resting in a private car within the park when police on patrol approached it.
According to police and witnesses at the park, the car had been parked there for more than an hour raising suspicion.
Nairobi County Police Commander Joseph Ole Tito maintained that officers approached the car with an intention of knowing if there were occupants and their mission.
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Ole Tito stated: “The car’s windows were tinted and as the officers approached it, the driver sped off prompting one of the officers to shoot at it. Both occupants were injured but the woman succumbed in the hospital.”
The car is reported to have stalled a few metres away where the two occupants were removed and rushed to hospital where the woman died while being attended to.
A relative of the man told journalists the bullet that hit him on the shoulder also hit the woman in the chest, killing her instantly.
Tito, further maintained they had launched investigations into the incident even as the families of the man and woman complained that police had acted with eagerness to shoot.
The Nairobi Police Commander maintained that the officers did not want to take chances in this era of many crimes including terrorism.
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Elsewhere, a man was shot dead in Kabete area in a botched robbery. The man was reported to have been in the company of three others and had been attacking and robbing locals when police were alerted.
