Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, have arrested three suspects in connection with the brutal murder of a 22-year-old security guard during a robbery at Engako Bar in Nyachenge trading center on 26 November 2024.
In a statement, DCI said the suspects were apprehended after days of investigations and a relentless manhunt.
“After days of relentless hunt for a gang of violent robbers who on November 26, 2024, murdered a security guard over several bottles of beer, Gucha South detectives have rounded up three suspects and secured crucial evidential material found on them,” said DCI.
The suspects are alleged to have ambushed the guard outside the bar, viciously attacking him with crude weapons and made away with alcohol worth Ksh 26,000.
“On the fateful evening, the gang ambushed the 22-year-old guard at Engako Bar which is located within Nyachenge trading centre, clobbered him with crude weapons and left him for dead. As the victim bled his life out, his assailants broke into the bar and disappeared with Sh26,000 worth of alcohol,” DCI stated.
Tabaka area chief informed the police of the incident, who activated a fine team of detectives to pursue the gang. Acting on intelligence leads, the investigators traversed the county of Migori, flushing out the first suspect, Festus Odhiambo aka Arum, aged 31.
“At his hole, the sleuths seized a set of blood-stained clothes. After an investigative interview with Odhiambo, the Gucha-based hawkshaws sharpened their claws on two other suspects, Thomas Momanyi Omenta, 31, and 26-year-old Grace Kerubo Oseko,” DCI remarked.
The two other suspects were nabbed within Kisii township, and from them, a mobile phone stolen from the primary scene was recovered.
The Sub-County Head of Investigations then led his team in conducting an identification parade after it emerged that the trio had reveled at the bar earlier on the fateful night of the murder.
The three are being held at Nyamarambe Police Station, having been arraigned under a miscellaneous application to assist with further investigations.
