NAIROBI, Kenya, Jul 19- A team of homicide detectives has been dispatched from Nairobi to Elgeyo Marakwet County, as the probe surrounding the death of police officer Caroline Kangogo is intensified.
Kangogo’s body is set to undergo a post-mortem examination, to determine what claimed her life.
Preliminary reports indicated that she allegedly committed suicide by shooting herself, but questions continue to be raised surrounding the nature of her death.
Experts are also questioning the lack of blood splatter in the bathroom wall, where her body was found lying in a sitting position by her mother, according to police.
“We want to establish whether she committed suicide or she was killed,” a senior detective privy to the ongoing investigations told Shahidi News.
They are also looking at establishing whether her mother’s bathroom was the actual scene of crime.
No one heard the gunshot; family members have said.
“Autopsy report will also help in this. Our officers already took pictures of the scene after an analysis. We will know the truth,” the officer added.
Elgeyo Marakwet County Commander told Shahidi News that the homicide detectives were already on the ground, piecing information together to establishing the series of events that led to her death.
“The work has started,” the Elgeyo County Commander Patrick Lumumba said.
Kangogo went hiding for 11 days only for her body to be discovered at her paternal home on July 16.
The deceased’s rural home is in Nyawa village, Tambach division in Keiyo.
Kangogo is said to have been wearing a similar attire she was spotted in while allegedly killing her last two victims.
She was first accused of killing police constable John Ogweno.
Ogweno was found dead in Nakuru, with police saying he was shot on the right side of the head on July 5, 2021.
An empty cartridge of 9mm was recovered at the scene.
Police officers led by Nakuru Town East Sub-County Police Commander Phanton Analo said the officer passed on while in his vehicle at the police residential quarters.
One empty cartridge of 9 mm was recovered at the scene.
Also admitted as evidence was a metal bar found in the car. The cars’s window had been broken.
Detectives also reported that his firearm, a ceska pistol with 15 rounds of ammunition was also missing and was alleged to have been taken by the suspect.
The two are also alleged to have been in a romantic relationship for a month.
Days later, Kangogo is accused of targeting her second victim, a former police officer, 32-year-old Peter Ndwiga.
According to police, Ndwiga was killed inside a hotel room, in unclear circumstances.
Detectives who spoke to Shahidi News said the officer had on Monday July 5 been spotted with Ndwiga at Dedamax hotel in Kimbo area, Kiambu county.
The suspect entered the hotel in the company of the deceased at around 4pm, police and witnesses said.
Hotel staff told detectives that she left her room at around midnight. At the point when she was leaving, she told one of the staff members at the reception that she wanted to make a purchase at one of the local shops.
It is only after they discovered the body of the deceased laying in a pool of blood on the bed that they knew she had fled the scene.
Detectives at the crime scene said the man was shot in the head from a point-blank range. Postmortem examination on the two men revealed that they died of excessive bleeding.
-Transition from Kiganjo Police College-
Before she was transferred to Nakuru police station, Shahidi News has established that she was an instructor at the Kenya Police Training College, in Kiganjo, Nyeri.
“She was dating a senior police officer and while there, they sired two babies,” another colleague who worked with Kangogo in Kiganjo said.
But the two parted ways after ‘irreconcilable’ differences. The father of the two children is still serving as a police officer.
Kangogo previously served at P.T.C Mombasa in 2009, Kaloleni police station between 2010 and 2013, Kiganjo K.P.C between 2013 and 2015.
Before she was termed, ‘rogue and dangerous,’ she has been stationed at central police station in Nakuru from 2015.
She also underwent a sharpshooting training course in Kiganjo between 2008 and 2009.
In 2019, Kangogo was issued with a show cause letter by the then Officer Commanding Station in Nakuru police station.
It remains one of the most notable and documented indiscipline incident, but Shahidi News did not manage to establish the details of the case.
The deceased leaves behind two children aged 8 and 11.
Burial arrangements are underway, even as mystery surrounds her death.
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