A 19-year-old boy was attacked and killed in a mistaken identity incident in Nairobi’s Umoja Innercore Estate.
The victim was attacked by a group of youth who were attending a party at a private residence in the area after mistaking him to be a thief at about midnight on Saturday.
Police and witnesses said the deceased was walking to his residence that was about 500 metres away and had stopped to relieve himself when he was killed.
He had stopped besides a car to relieve himself when some of the youth who were partying at a next house saw him and thought he was stealing from the car.
The youth attacked him with sticks and blows leaving him for the dead. He was identified by the neighbours yesterday morning long after those who are believed to have been behind the incident had left.
The victim sat Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) last year. Buru Buru OCPD Jecinta Wesonga said yesterday a team of detectives was pursuing the incident with a view of taking action. The body was removed to the mortuary. Neighbours of the boy identified him only as Philip.
“Some of these parties that take place in estates should not be allowed because people get drunk and commit crimes that are grave,” said a neighbour Gideon Otieno, as police removed the body.
City police boss Anthony Kibuchi warned that those arrested over such incidents will face charges that may include murder.
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