A police officer has been detained at Lodwar Police Station in Turkana after shooting dead a bar owner who was also his sister on Tuesday following a confrontation over a Sh550 debt he owed for liquor he had taken on credit.
According to the police report, the fight between the siblings started at Kainuk market where the sister, a secondary school teacher, runs a bar.
The sister, Susan Nasiru Emure, 34, is said to have demanded that her brother, Wilfred Kibichiy Too, clears his bar bill, a situation that quickly escalated into a physical altercation that the officer with an injury on his head after the lady hit him using a stone.
Agitated over the incident, the officer rushed back to Kakong Police Post where he picked his G3 rifle and went to his sister’s house and shot her several times.
“The officer was hit on the head with a stone and started bleeding. He ran back to the police post and returned armed with a G3 rifle, went to his sister’s house and shot her three times,” the report read in part.
She died on the spot, the police report said.
Police officers later disarmed and arrested the killer policeman, detaining him at Lodwar Police Station.
His sister’s body was taken to Lodward Referral Hospital mortuary.
