{"id":143634,"date":"2026-06-10T17:02:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T17:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/five-suspects-arrested-over-brutal-tharaka-nithi-double-murder\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T17:02:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T17:02:53","slug":"five-suspects-arrested-over-brutal-tharaka-nithi-double-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/five-suspects-arrested-over-brutal-tharaka-nithi-double-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Five suspects arrested over brutal Tharaka Nithi double murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Five suspects have been arrested in connection with a deadly attack that left two people dead and two others seriously injured in Tharaka Nithi County.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The suspects were apprehended during a series of intelligence-led operations conducted between June 4 and June 8 by detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations\u2019 Crime Research and Intelligence Bureau (CRIB).<\/p>\n<p>According to the DCI, the arrests relate to a violent incident that occurred on the night of May 21 in Tonto Village, Kamwimbi Location, where a gang armed with firearms and crude weapons stormed a homestead and unleashed a deadly attack.<\/p>\n<p>The assailants reportedly descended on the compound at about 9:00PM and fatally assaulted a man at the entrance before firing several shots into the air to scare away residents who could have intervened.<\/p>\n<p>The attackers got their way into the homestead killing an elderly woman and left two other victims with serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The DCI said forensic analysis and investigations into the matter established links to several suspects believed to have played a direct role in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Those arrested were identified as Benson Mugendi Patrick, Kibet Collins Kemboi, Wilson Kinyua Nyaga, Josphat Nyaga Njue and Joseph Kinyua Njeru, alias Maruu.<\/p>\n<p>The five suspects remain in custody pending arraignment as detectives continue to pursue additional suspects believed to have been involved in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/five-suspects-arrested-over-brutal-tharaka-nithi-double-murder\/\">Five suspects arrested over brutal Tharaka Nithi double murder<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five suspects have been arrested in connection with a deadly attack that left two people dead and two others seriously injured in Tharaka Nithi County. The suspects were apprehended during a series of intelligence-led operations conducted between June 4 and June 8 by detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations\u2019 Crime Research and Intelligence Bureau [&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-143634","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\/143634","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=143634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}