Detectives have launched investigations into an incident where a police officer shot and killed his wife before committing suicide.
Police constable Hudson Wakisa, a general service unit officer attached as security aide at the Ministry of Interior and coordination of national government, is said to have shot dead his wife Pauline Wakasa attached to Kilimani Police Station traffic department, after a heated exchange.
According to a police report, Wakisa is said to have engaged in a verbal altercation with his wife shortly after he arrived at their drive-inn estate flats house shortly after 9pm on Tuesday 06th April, 2021.
According to an eye witness, the altercation escalated with Wakisa stepping out of the house and returning back armed with a Jericho pistol. He then drew the pistol, serial number KP- 44333035 firing several rounds at his wife’s chest killing her instantly. He then turned the gun on himself with the fatal bullet killing him instantly.
Police officers who responded found the two bodies lying at the sitting room in a pool of blood.
The two bodies were transferred to Kenyatta University Mortuary awaiting postmortem.
