A GSU officer attached to the Presidential Escort Unit
has shot his girlfriend dead before attempting to commit suicide in Nairobi.
The officer identified as Police Constable Samuel Njoroge
shot his girlfriend, Anne Wanjohi inside a cyber café on Tom Mboya Street
on Saturday night following an argument.
The officer, who is fighting for his life in hospital,
shot himself three times in the chest and left hand.
Witnesses said the officer arrived at the cyber at about
7pm and stayed there for a while as Wanjohi attended to customers.
An argument later ensued between the two after which the
officer drew his gun and shot her at close range, killing her on the spot as
frightened customers scampered for safety.
It was then that he turned his gun on himself.
According to Ms Wanjohi’s sister, Mary Wangare, the
officer had threatened her sister her several times that he would kill her if
she did not agree to marry him.
She said her sister had been rejecting the officer’s
marriage proposal and kept telling him she was not ready.
“He kept insisting that he wanted to marry her
immediately. This made Anne uncomfortable and she tried avoiding him,” Wangare
told the Nation.
“She wanted to continue working so that she could save
some money to enable her to join university. She was his girlfriend, but he
insisted on marriage. I don’t know why he shot her, but I remember he had
assaulted her on three occasions,” Wangare said amid tears.
She said the officer kept telling her sister that he had
never loved anyone the way he loved her, and that he was not going to live
without her.
