A family in Nairobi's Kahawa West area is in mourning after a police officer lost his cool at a Chang'aa drinking den and shot dead their 2-year-old toddler who was playing in the vicinity.
Citizen TV reported that the officer, alongside colleagues, had been dispatched to a den in the area on the evening of Sunday, September 7, to arrest its rogue proprietors.
On arrival, however, a confrontation ensued between the officers and the sellers before one of them drew his gun and started firing.
Unfortunately, one of his bullets hit a toddler who was playing next to the den. The boy was pronounced dead upon arrival at Kiambu Level Five Hospital.
This comes just months after a man stormed his in-laws home and shot dead three children, including his step-daughter, in Elgeyo Marakwet before disappearing.
In the July incident, the in-laws divulged that man, identified as David Yano, showed up at the homestead armed with a firearm and demanded to speak to his wife, Nancy Jebet.
When he learned that she was not around, he is said to have forced himself into the house where he shot the three children who were aged between four and 10 years.
According to witnesses, Jebet had reportedly learnt of her husband's intentions to harm her through her friends and fled the home for safety.
“Jebet was lucky because she fled with her baby on Sunday evening upon receiving information that she was being sought by her husband who had plans to hurt her. She didn’t know that her husband would turn the gun on innocent children,” stated a witness at the time.
