{"id":127769,"date":"2026-01-03T07:03:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T07:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/nyahururu-police-officer-arrested-after-stabbing-colleague-to-death\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T07:03:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T07:03:17","slug":"nyahururu-police-officer-arrested-after-stabbing-colleague-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/nyahururu-police-officer-arrested-after-stabbing-colleague-to-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Nyahururu police officer arrested after stabbing colleague to death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 3 \u2014 A police officer has been arrested in Nyahururu, Laikipia County, following a fatal stabbing incident at Salama Police Station that left one officer dead and another injured.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to a police report filed under Occurrence Book (OB) number 05\/02\/01\/2026, the incident occurred at around 3.30pm on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The alarm was raised by an officer attached to Salama Police Station who heard members of the public screaming near the station.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis prompted him to rush back to the station, where he found one PC Victor Chesang, who was armed with a knife, assaulting SGT Wahome Muiruri, while PC Abel Kivoto Kimanzi was lying on the ground in a supine position,\u201d the police report stated.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the public and fellow officers intervened, subdued the suspect, and placed him in custody.<\/p>\n<p>Officers from Nyahururu Police Station and detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) responded to the scene, where they confirmed that PC Kimanzi had succumbed to his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>His body was later transferred to Pope Benedict Mortuary pending a post-mortem examination.<\/p>\n<p>Sergeant Muiruri, who attempted to intervene during the altercation, sustained injuries and was initially taken to Salama Health Centre before being transferred to another facility for further medical care.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the cause of the altercation remains unclear and is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Two knives and a stick, all bearing blood stains and believed to have been used during the attack, were recovered at the scene and secured as exhibits.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, who also sustained injuries during the incident, was escorted to Nyahururu Referral Hospital under guard for treatment and remains in police custody.<\/p>\n<p>The scene was processed and documented by crime scene personnel, while the DCI has taken over investigations into the incident.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 3 \u2014 A police officer has been arrested in Nyahururu, Laikipia County, following a fatal stabbing incident at Salama Police Station that left one officer dead and another injured. According to a police report filed under Occurrence Book (OB) number 05\/02\/01\/2026, the incident occurred at around 3.30pm on Friday. The alarm was [&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-127769","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\/127769","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=127769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}