Police officer shoots dead two colleagues at Moyale Police Station
A police officer has shot dead his colleagues during a melee at Moyale Police Station.
A Moyale-based police officer on Sunday morning shot dead his two colleagues before turning the gun on himself and dying by suicide.
Marsabit County Commissioner Paul Rotich said the police officer ambushed his colleague who was on his way from the armoury to pick up a gun back to his house.
“We have launched an investigation into an incident that occurred this morning at around 6.10am after a police officer shot dead his two colleagues, and injured two others before turning the gun on himself, the cause of the killings is still unknown,” Mr Rotich said.
He waylaid the unsuspecting colleague and hit him with a stone on the head sending him sprawling on the ground before he snatched his gun and rushed to the station’s armoury where he opened fire on his three other colleagues.
He shot two colleagues who died instantly and seriously injured another during the melee.
He subsequently rushed back to his house where he closed the door and shot himself dead in the chin.
Mr Rotich explained that the bodies of the three officers were removed to Moyale sub-county hospital mortuary for post-mortem while the two injured officers were admitted at the hospital.
One of the injured officers who was shot in the arm is reportedly in critical condition while the other who was first hit with a stone before his gun was taken is in stable condition.
The motive of the shooting incidents remains unknown, and police have begun investigations.
Mr Rotich’s said the death of the three exposes yet another sad reality gripping the National Police Service’s most vulnerable victims of mental health.
Based on preliminary checks, the rogue officer had not sought help from his unit, supervisors, or counsellors.
Mr Rotich appealed to the security officers not to resort to killing their colleagues or committing suicide as a way of conflict resolution.
