{"id":12040,"date":"2021-12-07T08:13:40","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T08:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=12040"},"modified":"2021-12-07T08:16:28","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T08:16:28","slug":"police-officer-goes-on-a-shooting-spree-kills-wife-and-6-others-in-kabete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=12040","title":{"rendered":"Police officer goes on a shooting spree kills wife and 6 others in Kabete."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Trouble with police men taking their own lives and killing loved ones seem not to be going away anytime soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 Hours Ago. A Police officer identified as Benson Imbatu based at Kabete Police station shoots wife dead in their house, goes on the road on a shooting spree and kills five other people, Injures more before killing self.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/protest-1-.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12043\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/protest-1-.jpg 720w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/protest-1--300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption><strong><em>Demos on Waiyaki way following the incident<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The incident, which has left seven people including neighbours and boda boda riders dead,&nbsp;was confirmed by Kabete Sub-County Police Commander Francis Wahome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The early morning shooting spree happened at J Apartments near N Market, where the police officer, identified as&nbsp;Constable Benson Imbatu,&nbsp;lived&nbsp;with his wife<br>Carol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Transport paralysed on the Nairobi &#8211; Nakuru highway at Kabete area as boda boda operators protest the killing of their two colleagues by a police officer. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ajxCSpHD2Z\">pic.twitter.com\/ajxCSpHD2Z<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Hot 96 FM Kenya (@Hot_96Kenya) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hot_96Kenya\/status\/1468108144320598017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 7, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Residents of J Apartments say&nbsp;they heard a loud bang from the couple&#8217;s&nbsp;house late in the night. Minutes later, they reported what looked like a fire from the same house, and reported the incident at Kabete Police Station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On arrival, officers from the station found that Mr Imbatu&nbsp;had shot his wife dead, and that he later went on a shooting spree that led&nbsp;to more fatalities<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trouble with police men taking their own lives and killing loved ones seem not to be going away anytime soon. 7 Hours Ago. A Police officer identified as Benson Imbatu based at Kabete Police station shoots wife dead in their house, goes on the road on a shooting spree and kills five other people, Injures &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12040"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12045,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12040\/revisions\/12045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}