NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 16 — Agents attached to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) cordoned off a section of Kaunda Street in Nairobi on Thursday in an attempt to triangulate a possible location for a sniper.
The agents who included crime scene investigators and forensic experts sealed off the street a day after a pathologist examination on a victim who collapsed at the scene revealed she may have been shot at from an elevated angle.
The detectives accessed the roof of one of the buildings along the area the victim lost her life while others took notes.
The victim, a 46-year old woman who worked at the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF), collapsed and died along Kaunda Street on Monday.
She was thought to have died of natural causes by police and witnesses at the scene.
A pathologist examination on Mary Gathenya’s body discovered a bullet lodged in her lungs, leading to a homicide investigation.
Police said the new findings pointed to the possibility of the bullet having been fired from an elevated angle.
It is believed to have gone into the victim’s body through the collar borne before stopping in the lungs.
Witnesses and police said the victim complained of chest pains moments before she collapsed at around 5pm on Monday.
The victim’s colleagues called an ambulance which arrived in time but the responders declared her dead at the scene.
She had walked from her place of work in Upper Hill and was headed home when the incident happened.
The body was moved from Nairobi Hospital to Kenyatta University mortuary where the post mortem was conducted by a group of pathologists who concluded the death was as a result of shooting.
