The police have launched a search for a 24 year old administration police officer who allegedly tried to shoot dead his parents on Sunday.
The officer identified as Ephantus Muilwa and based in Siaya County tried to shoot at his parents Harrison Maina and Christine Muthoni at their Murang’a home but his G3 rifle malfunctioned.
The couple was tending their farm when the assailant showed up with the fire arm and demanded they make their last ammends.
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“I was attending to the farm when I heard some noise coming from a nearby bush. Upon looking I saw Muilwa aiming a gun at me and his father,” Muthoni narrated.
“It is then that he ordered us to say our last words,” she continued.
Despite cocking the gun and aiming at his father the rifle jammed giving the elderly ample time to take cover before he could open fire.
His second attempt to shoot at them failed as he missed them only by a whisker prompting him to leave the scene with a waiting boda boda.
George Waweru who witnessed the incident noted that after hearing the shots he saw the assailant leave the scene with a sack on his back and board the boda boda.
On May 1, Muilwa had warned his father and step-mother that he would be back home at a later date and he would kill them.
According to Maina, his son was angered by his decision to marry another wife after marriage with his mother hit the rocks.
“He, Muilwa, blames me for his father chasing way his mother and he has been issuing death threats to me and his father ever since,” Mu
thoni noted.
The two claimed that it is not the first time that the suspect had attacked them. He once hired a hit-man who left them nursing injuries.
Muilwa is still at large.
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