Residents of Mbeere have woken up this morning with sad news after a middle-aged man barbarically killed his wife aged 28 and his two children aged nine and five in the wee hours of Sunday, 7th February.
Detectives in Mbeere are investigating the murder incident and according to the DCI, David Kariuki Nyaga had locked up his family inside their house in Kiamukuyu.
He executed them one after the other, in a scene described by the detectives who documented it as ‘gory’.
“Earlier, our officers had been informed by the village Assistant Chief Anthony Munyiri of the incident and together with their Police counterparts, rushed to the scene. Unfortunately, by the time of their arrival, the suspect had wiped out his entire family in the most despicable manner, by hitting their foreheads using a sledgehammer,” the DCI said in a statement.
The murder weapon was recovered and the suspect arrested as detectives try to establish the motive of the killings.
