A 27-year-old man has been arrested after being suspected to have killed his girlfriend after an argument on Tuesday night.
The suspect is said to have lethally stabbed his lover in the stomach.
The late Dorcas Jamilla, 18-year-old student at Kisumu Polytechnic was in her first year pursuing a course in procurement.
The references started that their arguments played out on social media before the man reportedly ambushed her while she was going to a cyber café and murdered her.
“Jamilla was attacked at Riat along the Kisumu-Kakamega highway near her parents’ home.” Police said yesterday
The suspect was arrested after he was found hiding in the bush at 5pm close to where the incident happened.
Jamilla’s body was taken to the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital mortuary.
The DCI officer Tom Simbiri at Kondele Police Station, The investigations into the murder have been undertaken after the officers spoke to the couple’s friends and the victim is said to have been very stressful.
The suspect, a former student at Maseno University, will be held at the station pending a psychiatric test.
“The woman was still conscious but bleeding profusely when rescuers arrived. She was able to tell them who had attacked her,” a source said.
Angeline Akinyi, a witness,said she hurried to the scene after she heard yells.
“She died while we were taking her to hospital,” said Ms Akinyi.
Isca Ouma, Jamilla’s mother who sells (mitumba) “second-hand clothes” said she had just arrived from Nairobi when she was informed about her daughter’s murder.
The weepy mother said she was aware of her daughter’s affair with her alleged murderer.
“My daughter sat her KCSE exams last year and had big dreams. I also knew the relationship between my daughter and the young man had got bad,” Ms Ouma said.
“My daughter had complained to me that the boyfriend was disturbing her and interfering with her studies.”
She also said that she had warned the man against seeing her.
One day before the incident, the suspect had written a post on Facebook saying that Jamilla wanted to dump him despite the sacrifices he had made for her.
“Be careful when you love that girl you see on my profile picture. She has killed me. Real love is not there and can never exist. I am the first man in her life but now I stink to her and her family who thinks I will waste their daughter because I am poor, love is not riches or poverty. People fight. I developed asthma … I slept in the cold for her.” the suspect posted online
Jamilla’s mother said she traced the suspect’s parents and told them about what had been happening, but they reportedly told her they were not aware of their son’s frustrations.
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