KIAMBU, Kenya, Jan 9- A son to a couple which was killed in cold blood together with three others in Karura area, Kiambu county has confessed he committed the crime.
He was Friday arrested as a suspect into the incident three days after being hunted by police..
Police said they arrested the son identified as Lawrence Simon Warunge after he went missing since Tuesday when his parents, two brothers and a worker were brutally murdered at their home.
He later on Saturday confessed to the incident and led police to a residence in Mai Mahiu where they recovered the killer weapon, piece of clothes, shoes and a piece of paper.
He had thrown the exhibits into a pit latrine.
He also took police to an open field in the same area where he said he burnt some of the evidence.
Lawrence claims he committed the killings of the five people on his own.
But police said they are open to possibilities there were other suspects involved.
His girlfriend who lived in the house in Mai Mahiu is also being detained.
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 Mai Mahiu, Naivasha.
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”.
Police had thought 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 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.
The bodies were moved to the mortuary where a postmortem is expected Monday.
Nothing was stolen from the compound during the 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 since 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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