Investigations into the death of interior designer Jeff Mwathi on Friday, March 17, took a different turn after homicide detectives ruled out death by suicide and instead pointed to an attempt to cover up a murder case.
Homicide detectives probing his case established that Mwathi’s body was dead when it descended from the storey building where Lawrence Njuguna (Dj Fatxo) lives, contrary to earlier reports stating that he jumped off.
The detectives drawn from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) further found that an adult couldn't jump off the window as earlier alleged by the key suspects in the case.
According to the preliminary investigations, the windows at Dj Fatxo's house were fitted with grills which ruled out the practicality of an adult jumping off.
Thus, the investigators concluded the body of Jeff Mwathi was pushed off the rooftop or the apartment's staircase.
In addition, the DCI detectives pointed at the 23-year-old interior designer struggling before meeting his death.
The detectives listed a host of persons of interest in the case, including all five people inside DJ Fatxo’s room on the night the incident was reported to have happened.
Further, police officers attached to Kasarani Police Station who had handled the case in its initial stages were also listed as persons of interest.
Pressure has since piled on Kasarani Police Station as a section of members of the public push for an audit of the police station.
While reacting to the trajectory of the investigations, Kenyans expressed their reservations about how the police officers from the station handled the case in its early stages.
"After the culprits, the murderers of Jeff Mwathi have taken a plea, the spotlight must shift to Kasarani Police Station," nominated Senator Karen Nyamu stated.
"Police officers who handled Jeff's alleged "suicide" at Kasarani Police Station are the next bunch of persons of interest to be interrogated," another Twitter post read.
In his address to the media, DJ Fatxo alleged that Mwathi was found dead on the ground floor of the apartment in Kasarani and that he was away when the incident happened.
However, an online uproar prompted the intervention of Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki, who directed DCI to take over the case.