Police in Nyali, Mombasa County, have arrested two suspects in connection with the killing of a 24-year-old man during an alleged altercation with his girlfriend at Vescon One Apartments in Kadzandani.
Ian Mwendwa Muriithi is said to have been involved in a dispute with his 23-year-old girlfriend, Joan Murugi, before he was found unconscious near the bathroom door with a stab wound to the left side of his chest.
According to a police report, security guards at the apartment complex were alerted to the altercation at around 3am. When they arrived at the house, they found Muriithi dead.
Murugi and another suspect were arrested as police launched investigations into the incident. Detectives also recovered a kitchen knife believed to have been used in the killing.
Muriithi’s body was moved to the Coast General Hospital mortuary, where it is awaiting a post-mortem examination as the Directorate of Criminal Investigations continues to establish the circumstances surrounding his death.
