More questions emerge as police investigate city lawyer

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Detectives have been investigating a case of a prominent city lawyer Assa Nyakundi who has been speculated to have killed his son in cold blood.

However according to his statement to the police, he shot his son accidentally while seated at the back seat.

Police are also investigating how Mr Nyakundi drove all the way to a hospital in the Parklands neighbourhood with his son bleeding to death in the back seat, before driving back to Muthaiga Police Station to report the incident.

According to the neighbours and security guards at Parkside Estate said they did not hear gunshots within the vicinity of the otherwise quiet neighbourhood, off Kiambu Road

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Mr Nyakundi said the accident had happened near the Judiciary Training Institute.

Detectives have now asked for more time to conclude their investigations which will focus on why the Toyota Axio Joseph is said to have died in had two bullet holes at the back seat.

A ballistics expert at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) told the Nation that the holes were far apart, which raises questions regarding how the gun discharged.

Mr Nyakundi has been a licensed firearm holder for over two decades and his Glock pistol, according to the Austrian manufacturer, is equipped with three independent safety features to prevent accidental firing.

A worker at a homestead next to the Nyakundis said he saw Joseph on Saturday evening as he drove into their compound. He was in high spirits, as he always was, according to neighbours.

“There is no single day he would meet you on the street and not engage you in small talk,” a worker on the street, who identified himself as Samwir, said.

The Nyakundis have lived in the Nairobi suburb for more than a decade. Save for two daughters studying abroad, the rest of the family lives in Nairobi.

Four DCI officers spent more than two hours in the property yesterday, trying to piece together what could have happened. They interviewed Mr Nyakundi’s wife, his househelp and his other son in the presence of their lawyers.

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