KIAMBU, Kenya, Jan 9- A son to a couple which was killed in cold blood together with three others in Karura area, Kiambu county was Friday arrested as a suspect into the incident after three days of being hunted down.
Police said they arrested the son identified as Lawrence Warunge after he went missing since Tuesday when his parents, two brothers and a worker were brutally murdered at their home.
The son told police that his parents were “satanic and killers”.
Lawrence is a university student in the city and was initially thought to have gone to school.
His mobile phone signal was traced to Naivasha and it is not clear how and why he went there.
It was later traced to Thika and later to Kabete area.
Police said the suspect went to a relative’s home in Ngongoro area to seek refuge before they were alerted Friday night.
He was later arrested when he told police his parents were “satanic” without divulging further details.
It is believed at least five people were involved in the murder of Nicholas Njoroge Warunge, his wife Annie, sons Christian and Maxwell and a construction worker James Kinyanjui.
Their horribly mutilated bodies were found in their Kiambaa home on Tuesday and Wednesday.
It is believed a dispute over property was the motive of the murder.
Police believe Warunge was in the master bedroom upstairs at the time of the attack.
He rushed to the balcony on sensing danger and jumped down where the killers caught up with him and stabbed him several times and left him for dead.
Preliminary reports indicated he had 34 stab wounds and a slit throat.
The bodies were moved to the mortuary where a postmortem is expected Monday.
Nothing was stolen from the compound during the tragic incident.
Kiambu police boss Ali Nuno said they will also revisit past unsolved murder incidents that happened in the family and are probably related to the latest murder.
Warunge had arrived in Kenya from the USA where he worked as a nurse during the Christmas holidays about 11 days ago.
His two elder daughters survived the cold blooded murder because they had on the previous day gone to school.
Neighbours said they are in secondary school.
Annie who worked with Kiambu County Government as a psychologist nurse and two of their children were found murdered and the bodies lying in the compound.
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