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- Police officers in Bungoma have arrested a high school student for killing his father on Sunday night.
- The suspect who is a student at Kisuluni Secondary School is to have escaped from the scene was later arrested by the police who tracked him down to a friend’s house.
Police officers in Bungoma have arrested a high school student for killing his father on Sunday night.
Brian Wekesa, 21, allegedly assaulted his father, 45, and later slashed him in the arms with a machete after the dad disrupted Wekesa’s “private time with his girlfriend”.
The Form Four student is said to have killed his father at Khayinga Village in Kanduvi Constituency.
“Enraged at the father’s intrusion, the 21-year-old suspect landed on him with blows and kicks, before inflicting deep cuts on his head and arms with a machete,” the DCI said on a Facebook post on Monday.
Neighbors are said to have responded to distress calls by Wekesa’s father. They Unfortunately arrived at the scene when the victim had already died from severe bleeding, according to the police.null
The suspect who is a student at Kisuluni Secondary School is to have escaped from the scene was later arrested by the police who tracked him down to a friend’s house.
“He is being processed for arraignment,” the DCI said on Monday.
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