What started as a dust-up between lovers in Kiambu’s Juja shopping centre culminated in the tragic loss of two lives last night, when a man stabbed his girlfriend four times before turning the killer knife on himself.
According to witnesses, Daniel Mwangi Wairimu, 39, had earlier visited his girlfriend Jane Njogu at her Mpesa shop in the Juja shopping centre, where the two clashed over an unestablished matter.
The tiff went on until the lady who is believed to be in her early 30s closed up her business, and then the two proceeded to the lady’s house at Palyjote Apartments in Juja.
Minutes past 10 pm, the piercing wails of a woman had, however, hurled the neighbourhood into befuddlement. A house where pleasure and leisure moments had been harboured for days was turned into a horrendous bloody scene when Mwangi drove three knife stabs into his girlfriend’s back and the fourth one through her belly.
Thunderstruck neighbours who thronged the scene found her body in a pool of blood and were too late to save her life.
After the deadly attack, Mwangi reportedly turned the knife on himself, driving it through his neck. In an attempt to save him, members of the public rushed him to the hospital but he succumbed to profuse bleeding on the way.
The cause of the appalling deaths of Daniel Mwangi and Jane Njogu is currently being investigated by detectives based in Juja. Meanwhile, the bodies have been moved to Thika General Kago Funeral Home awaiting autopsy.
