{"id":115754,"date":"2025-05-29T06:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T06:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/05\/29\/teen-kills-brother-in-dispute-over-memory-card-in-bungoma\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T06:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T06:03:11","slug":"teen-kills-brother-in-dispute-over-memory-card-in-bungoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/teen-kills-brother-in-dispute-over-memory-card-in-bungoma\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen Kills Brother in Dispute Over Memory Card in Bungoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BUNGOMA, Kenya May 29 \u2013 A family dispute turned deadly in Cheptais, Bungoma County, after a 15-year-old boy hacked his 19-year-old brother to death during an argument over a memory card.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the two brothers\u2014one in Form Three and the other in Grade Eight\u2014were at their home on May 27 when a quarrel broke out. The younger sibling reportedly picked up a panga and attacked his elder brother, fatally striking him on the neck and head before fleeing the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have launched a manhunt for the suspect, while the victim\u2019s body was moved to a local mortuary.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate incident, police in Ganze, Kilifi County, are investigating the murder of a 70-year-old man.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel Thoya Baya\u2019s body was discovered in a village on May 27 after he went shopping in the Dzikunge area. Police said the motive for the killing remains unclear but noted a worrying rise in violent attacks against elderly residents in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Police said investigations into both incidents are ongoing.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUNGOMA, Kenya May 29 \u2013 A family dispute turned deadly in Cheptais, Bungoma County, after a 15-year-old boy hacked his 19-year-old brother to death during an argument over a memory card. Police said the two brothers\u2014one in Form Three and the other in Grade Eight\u2014were at their home on May 27 when a quarrel broke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}