Two r*****y s******s are d**d after a police-involved s******g in Homa Bay County.
In today’s i******t that happened in the afternoon hours, the unidentified robbers were s**t and k****d in the Got Kokech area along the Homa Bay-Kendu Bay road a few kilometres from Homa Bay town.
The robbers were just from a reported h***t within the county when they got flagged down by officers who were on patrol in the area. They failed to yield.
Instead, they engaged the police officers in a running f**e-fight while speeding on the highway until their car l**********l and landed in a ditch.
One of the robbers was k****d at that point as he turned and pulled out a g*n to f**e at the police as he was fleeing on foot.
According to eyewitnesses, the other one was chased until the nearby River Osiri, where he tried to hide, but a sharpshooter took him down with a round to his head.
“The s*****t covered his head with clothes and squatted in the river to avoid being seen. One of the policemen saw him and s**t him,” Joseph Awino, a resident, said.
Mr Owino told journalists that the g*n battle raged for the better part of that hour, and b*****s could be seen slamming into police cruisers.
Police said a loaded AK-47 a*****t r***e, used by one of the g****n, and other stolen items, including a flat-screen TV, chequebooks and other bank documents, were found at the scene.
Detectives and c***e scene investigators from the Directorate of C******l Investigations (DCI) Homa Bay office searched the area of the s******g for b*****s, shell casings or other ballistics evidence to help with investigations.
“Their fingerprints (robbers’) will be taken on Tuesday to help in identification. We are still proceeding with investigations,” DCI Homa Bay office commander Charles Koilege said.
Bodies of the deceased were taken to Homa Bay County Teaching and Referral Hospital mortuary.
