{"id":135058,"date":"2026-03-22T11:02:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T11:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/armed-robbery-suspect-killed-in-shootout-with-police-on-wangari-maathai-road\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T11:02:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T11:02:45","slug":"armed-robbery-suspect-killed-in-shootout-with-police-on-wangari-maathai-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/armed-robbery-suspect-killed-in-shootout-with-police-on-wangari-maathai-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed robbery suspect killed in shootout with police on Wangari Maathai Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 22 \u2013 Detectives shot dead a suspected armed robber during a confrontation with police in the city\u2019s Wangari Maathai Road area on Saturday evening after officers responding to a public tip-off encountered a group allegedly attacking civilians.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) said officers from the Nairobi North Sub-Region were on routine foot patrol near the Jubilee Flyover along Wangari Maathai Road at around 5.50pm when a member of the public alerted them to three armed men robbing pedestrians in the nearby Makaburini area.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the officers moved discreetly toward the scene and soon encountered the suspects emerging from nearby bushland.<\/p>\n<p>The men allegedly launched a sudden assault on one of the officers, with the lead attacker drawing a pistol and pointing it at police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn lawful self-defence and protection of the public, the officers opened fire. One suspect was fatally shot at the scene,\u201d the DCI said.<\/p>\n<p>The agency said two accomplices, believed to have been wounded, fled into nearby undergrowth.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators recovered a Blow Mini 9 pistol from the scene, along with a magazine loaded with two rounds of 9mm ammunition and one round in the chamber.<\/p>\n<p>Two additional rounds of 9mm ammunition were also found in the deceased suspect\u2019s trouser pocket.<\/p>\n<p>Officers from Starehe and Gigiri sub-counties, together with scenes-of-crime personnel, processed the scene before the body was moved to the Nairobi City Mortuary pending formal identification and a post-mortem examination.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives said a manhunt was underway for the two remaining suspects and urged members of the public with information to contact the nearest DCI office or report anonymously through its toll-free hotline.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 22 \u2013 Detectives shot dead a suspected armed robber during a confrontation with police in the city\u2019s Wangari Maathai Road area on Saturday evening after officers responding to a public tip-off encountered a group allegedly attacking civilians. The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) said officers from the Nairobi North Sub-Region were on [&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-135058","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\/135058","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=135058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}