Police trail gunman after 25 year-old man is shot dead in Eastleigh

Detectives are tracing for a gunman who shot and killed a 25-year-old man in a robbery incident in Eastleigh, Nairobi.
The event was partially captured on security cameras on the night of Saturday, 9 November.





The family of Abdirahim Abdullahi Ibrahim, 25, said he was meeting his girlfriend on the fateful day in Eastleigh when an unknown assailant approached them and pulled the trigger at point blank.



Abdirahim was shot below the ear, with the bullet exiting on the other side of the head.



The assailant then escaped with his mobile phone, leaving the lady he was meeting stranded at the scene.



The CCTV cameras showed the gunman in a cap approach from behind and reaching his gun before he moved closer to where the two were standing and pulled the trigger.



A man who was standing about two meters away was seen running away upon witnessing the shooting.



The gunman then reached out to a mobile phone that the man had and walked away.According to the family, Abdirahim had been seeing the lady who works in one of the restaurants in Eastleigh as a waitress, and the two had decided to meet on Saturday night when the incident happened.



The motive is yet to be known but police say the target was the deceased.



The lady reported the matter to the Shauri Moyo Police Station.



A postmortem conducted at the City Mortuary with the request of the Shauri Moyo detectives revealed that Abdirahim died due to excessive blood loss following a gunshot wound to the neck.



The deceased was buried Sunday at the Lang’ata Cemetery in Nairobi.



Eastleigh has been in the limelight over fatal incidents.



The incident comes days after a family of three was brutally murdered by a suspect who has since been arrested.



The suspect, Hashim Dagane Muhumed, 34, is believed to have killed a mother, her daughter and niece, and later killed a lady in a rented apartment in Lavington. Police are investigating if he was a terror recruiter.



It emerged that he fraudulently obtained his identification cards.