A police officer was caught after killing his wife and left her lifeless body in the house before returning to work as usual.
According to a police complaint submitted by a neighbor, the suspect, Constable Maxwell Maina, who used to live in Railways Police Lines in Eldoret, was on her way home on Tuesday, November 28, evening when she heard gunshots from the officer’s house.
She immediately called police, who arrived at the suspect’s home and discovered his wife’s dead in a pool of blood.
She had been shot twice in the chest, according to police.
“Railways and DCI Soy personnel rushed to the scene and found one Mercy Chebet having been shot twice in the chest and succumbed to injury,” police said.
The husband had already gone back to work in the report office of the station by that point.
As per the police report, Maina was provided with a 30-bullet scorpion weapon to accompany trains in the vicinity.
Upon his apprehension and disarming, law enforcement discovered that he had fired three shots during the altercation.
The report also mentioned Maina and Chebet’s ongoing domestic disputes, which are thought to have contributed to the tragedy.
In anticipation of the post-mortem, the deceased’s body was transferred to the mortuary at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital.
There have been previous incidents in the same location as this one. Following the conclusion of detectives’ investigations, a police officer who is accused of shooting her husband to death was charged with murder last month.
This is not the first event in the same location. After investigators completed their investigations into a case in which she is accused of shooting her spouse twelve times, a police officer who reportedly shot her husband to death was charged with murder last month.
Following a long-standing family conflict, Police Constable Lilian Biwott, assigned to the Kenya Bureau of Standards Eldoret branch, allegedly shot her husband twelve times in the chest and head on October 14, 2023.
The event was apparently sparked by a disagreement between the suspect and her husband, the father of their three children.
The filming took place in their rental property at Kimumu estate on the outskirts of Eldoret.
She is claimed to have reported for night duty before.