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Kenyan Athlete Found Dead In Her House With Stab Wounds In The Stomach

by Yahil Felix October 13, 2021

Kenya’s 5,000m women’s representative to Tokyo Olympics Agnes Tirop has been found dead.

Tirop was found dead in her house on Wednesday, October 13, in Iten, Elgeyo Marakwet County.

According to Barnaba Korir, the chairperson of Athletics Kenya, the athlete had stab wounds in her stomach. It is suspected her ex-lover is behind the killing.

During Tokyo Olympic games, the 25 year-old emerged fourth in the 5,000m women’s finals afetr clocking 14:39.62.

Tirop was the 2019 World 5,000m bronze medalist. She also won the senior Cross Country Championships honours.

October 13, 2021 0 comment

Crime & Investigations

What’s Cooking? 44 Police Officers From Caroline Kangogo’s County Transferred

by Mustafa Juma August 6, 2021

written by Mustafa Juma

Barely days after the late female police officer Caroline Kangogo being buried at her parent’s home in Iten, Elgeyo Marakwet County, a massive transfer of police officers has hit the area.

Reports indicate that Deputy Inspector General of Police Edward Mbugua has ordered an immediate transfer of 44 police officers.

This is according to orders issued by Mbugua to Sub County Police Commanders via the County Police Headquarters in Iten on Thursday, August 5.

“Reference is made vide the Regional Police Commander Rift Valley’s letter dated August 3, on the above-mentioned matter. The Deputy Inspector General Kenya Police Service vid his letter dated July 28, has approved the deployment of the following police officers with immediate effect,” the notice reads in part.

The officers in the ranks of sergeants and corporals were transferred to police stations in 22 counties including Kisumu, Kirinyaga, Kiambu, Bungoma, Tharaka Nithi, Nyamira, Embu, Nyeri, Kisii, Migori, Muranga, Homa Bay, Nyandarua, Siaya, Busia, Mombasa, Meru, Kitui, Makueni, Vihiga, Kilifi and Machakos.

“Release the officers to report to their new stations with immediate effect. Submit casualty returns on departure,” the notice added.

Kangogo was laid to rest on Thursday July 28 in a low key burial.

There was no gunfire salute and no police officer attended in uniform as Kangogo was buried at her parents’ Nyawa village home in Elgeyo Marakwet county.

Tradition in the police service would require a 21 gunfire salute, but because of circumstances of her death, Caroline was denied the honours.

Her body was draped in a wedding dress as per her wishes.

Caroline was eulogised as a humble and good officer by friends and relatives.

She was popularly known in the village as “Chemu” and schooled at the local Nyawa Primary School a few meters from the family home.

Family members said they were satisfied with ongoing investigations and the autopsy performed by Chief government pathologist Dr Johansen Oduor.

Oduor carried out the autopsy at the Moi Referral Hospital in Eldoret and said the bullet entered the body through the right chin and exited on the left side of the head and there was a trajectory going through the spine to the brain killing her.

However he said further investigations would be done to establish if she shot herself or she was shot by someone else.

Kangogo was found dead in a bathroom at her parents’ home days after she was alleged to have killed two police officers.

August 6, 2021 0 comment

Crime & Investigations

So Sad! Caroline Kangogo Husband’s Painful Request At Her Burial

by Mustafa Juma July 29, 2021

written by Mustafa Juma

Caroline Kangogo, the female police officer who allegedly shot herself after killing two of her colleagues was finally laid to rest on Thursday July 29, 2021.

Hundreds of mourners turned up for the burial that was conducted at Nyawa village in Iten, Elgeyo Marakwet County.

Her husband Ngeno, who is a police officer at Maritime Police Unit in Mombasa County attended the burial. During the burial service, the husband is said to have made one request, which he was granted.

Reliable sources at the burial event revealed that the late Kangogo’s husband who was in the company of his parents requested not to be allowed to speak.

He sat near his daughter and son, who also travelled to pay their last respect to their mother.

The officer sat in the same dais as Kangogo’s parents and maintained his cool and hid his emotions behind dark sunglasses.

Reports indicate that Kangogo’s husband declined to address the mourners owing to the controversy surrounding her death. The children too did not speak.

Kangogo’s brother read the eulogy on the parent’s behalf, as they too requested not to speak.

Her parents are said to have refuted allegations that their relationship with Kangogo’s husband had turned sour.

In her suicide note that was recovered at the scene of her death, Kangogo claimed that her husband was the source of her woes.

In the message saved as a draft on her phone, the corporal reportedly wrote that she never found peace after the husband allegedly left her for another woman.

The embattled couple were allegedly entangled in a messy divorce case.

Kangogo, who was accused of assassinating two individuals, police constable John Ogweno and security expert Peter Ndigwa, claimed that she spared the life of her husband.

The body of police constable Caroline Kangogo arrived at her parents’ Nyawa village home in Elgeyo Marakwet county on Thursday for burial.

The body was fitted with a wedding dress as per Kangogo’s request in a draft text message found after her death.

Her father Barnabas and mother Leah Kangogo led mourners in collecting the body from Iten County Refferal Hospital morgue.

Officers from Nakuru where Kangogo served were present at the burial, as well as hundreds of residents.

The body was ferried in a hearse and police were not involved in transporting it to the home.

Kangogo’s brother Mark said the family will give Caroline a decent burial.

Chief government pathologist Johansen Oduor carried out a postmortem on Tuesday, which revealed Kangogo died from a single gunshot wound to the head that damaged her brain and skull.

July 29, 2021 0 comment

Crime & Investigations

PHOTOS: Anapendwa! Hundreds Of Mourners Turn Up For Caroline Kangogo’s Burial

by Mustafa Juma July 29, 2021

written by Mustafa Juma

Hundreds of mourners on Thursday July 29, 2021 turned up for the burial of Caroline Kangogo in Elgeyo Marakwet.

Photos which were seen by dailytrends.co.ke showed a hearse carrying her remains being escorted by a couple of vehicles from Iten town to Anin village, Keiyo South.

Caroline’s body arrived at the home on Thursday morning from the Iten County Referral Hospital mortuary where it had been preserved.

Relatives and friends view the body of the late Caroline Chemutai Kangogo at Nyawa, Elgeyo Marakwet

Caroline Kangogo’s father Barnabas and her mother Leah Kangogo led the mourners to collect the body ahead of the burial.

Her body was cleared for burial on Tuesday, after an autopsy conducted by Chief government pathologist Dr. Johansen Oduor.

According to sources at the event, ten of Kangogo’s colleagues attended the burial but did not give her full police honours as accorded to deceased officers.

Reports indicate that they were only acknowledged by being told to wave to those in attendance. They did not get a chance to issue any remarks.

The autopsy conducted on the body of police constable Caroline Kangogo by government pathologist Johansen Oduor suggested that she died of a gunshot wound after a bullet went through her brain, head and skull.

The burial was scheduled for last Saturday but the autopsy had not been conducted and hence the family could not push through with the plan.

Caroline Kangogo’s parents at their daughter’s burial in Elgeyo Marakwet County. — Caroline Kangogo’s parents during her burial. Photo/Courtesy.

“Caroline died as a result of a single gunshot wound which entered her body through the right chin exiting the left side of the head. The trajectory going through the spine via the brain,” said Oduor.

He confirmed that the gunshot wound means it was a contact entry, meaning that the gun was on the skin thus rupturing the skin.

He indicated he was not at the scene but from Investigative Officers it was reported to him that she died on the same scene meaning there was no body movement from elsewhere.

“The work of a pathologist is to establish cause of death, manner of death we confirm through many parameters which will be shared after the conclusion of the ongoing investigations,” he added.

According to him, there are three manner of death which are confirmed from lab reports. They include; suicide, accident and natural, for Caroline’s case it will be informed correctly through the lab results which is ongoing. Apart from the gunshot injury, Dr. Oduor confirmed the body had no other injuries.

In her last dying wish, Caroline stipulated that he body be cremated and that she be dressed in a pristine white wedding dress that is super expensive.

“To my parents, I am requesting my body be cremated to end your suffering. Remember to take care of my children. For the thing in Kasarani hire movers for safe delivery, here nothing belongs to (Name withheld) for I started from scratch after leaving us,” she wrote.

And to her fans she wrote, “To my people, it’s my wedding day dress me in a white gown that (name withheld) didn’t afford.”

July 29, 2021 0 comment