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A senior police officer shot his girlfriend dead before turning the gun to himself in Mau Summit, Nakuru, Kenya. Joseph Lourien Akorot, who is the Deputy OCS Mau Summit Police Station allegedly accosted his girlfriend, Ms Janet Chebet as she was heading back to her residence on Monday, September 5, 2022.
Ms Chebet, 30, had just escorted her four-year-old child to school when Joseph Lourien Akorot accosted her and shot her in the back.The officer then turned the gun shot himself in the head intending to commit suicide before he fell to the ground next to his girlfriend’s body.
“A Ceska pistol of serial number F4270 loaded with 9 rounds of 9mm was then recovered on the left-hand side of the officer who was lying on the ground,” a police report read in part.
Both victims were then rushed Hospital but Ms Chebet was pronounced dead on arrival while the police officer is in critical condition. Kuresoi North Sub County Police Commander James Ademba, who confirmed the incident on Monday, September 5, said that the deputy Officer Commanding Station (OCS) is in critical condition.
“The officer has been at the station for the last nine months. He has been friends with the woman but very scanty details are available currently on their relationship,” he said
