#Kamukunji Outrage As Police Officer Shoots Man Dead During Anti-Finance Bill Demos In Nairobi

Police in Nairobi are on the spot following the Thursday evening fatal shooting of a protestor during the ongoing Gen Z-led demonstrations opposing the proposed Finance Bill 2024.

The deceased has been identified as 24-year-old Rex Kanyike. He is currently lying at the City Mortuary Morgue.

Austin Arnold, a lawyer privy to the matter, told Citizen Digital that Kanyike was heading home at around 7pm in the company of a friend when he was shot in the knee outside Hilton Hotel along Moi Avenue by a rogue cop using live rounds.

The bullet remained lodged in his body until he passed away from excessive bleeding.

It is reported that he spent more than 20 minutes trying to seek medical attention before being rushed to Bliss Medical Centre along Moi Avenue where he was confirmed dead on arrival.

“I have spent the night with the family of Rex and we have delivered the body to City Mortuary for Post-Mortem in the morning. It is a shattered family. They are clinging to hope, because that’s all they can do,” Arnold said.

READ MORE When they arrived at the scene, they were astonished to find a cooking pot filled with meat and some vegetables. At the scene, was a human skull and blood-stained clothes as well as the deceased's gumboots. Police interrogated the suspect on his father's whereabouts but he noted that he was also unaware as he was still searching for him. The rest of the missing body parts first spotted by the locals was found dumped in a sack and covered with stones inside Nithi River. One of the area residents who claimed that the suspect began digging the tunnel in 2017 stated that the suspect and his victim had an argument about the condition of the tunnel before he went missing. "The two had quarrelled after the man stopped his father from cutting the Napier grass around the tunnel," Johnson Mutembei a resident told a local publication. The suspect is currently in custody pending arraignment in court to face murder charges. "We have arrested a man who is suspected to have killed his father, cooked part of the body and hidden some in a tunnel," Muthambi Sub-County Police Commander stated.

Activist Boniface Mwangi also confirmed the incident in an X statement, highlighting that he met the parents of the deceased following the incident.

“I’m sharing pictures of 24-year-old Rex Kanyike lying the in morgue with consent from his parents, Chrispin Odawa and Gillian Munyao whp are standing over his body at the City Mortuary,” said Mwangi.

“He was killed by the police this evening. They’re shocked and numb from the loss of their son.”

The shooting of Rex Kanyike has sparked outrage with Kenyans taking to social media to push for justice.