Senior police officer killed after shooting Makadara magistrate

A senior police officer was Thursday shot and killed after he shot and wounded a magistrate at the Makadara Law Courts in Nairobi.

The Makadara Principal Magistrate Monica Kivuti was shot in the court soon after she had delivered a ruling in a case involving the wife of the senior officer.

Police said the senior officer is an Officer Commanding Station in Kisumu.

He had travelled to Nairobi to attend to a case where his wife was a suspect and wanted to be released pending a hearing and determination of the case.

The court was sitting in a tent outside the main court precincts.

Soon after the magistrate had ruled on the matter, the officer went behind the tent and shot her, Nairobi police boss Adamson Bungei said.

“Other officers who were present responded and shot the officer fatally wounding him,” he said.

Reportedly, the accused appeared in court in a fraud case. She told the court that she had severally failed to appear in court since she was suffering from cancer.