- Yesterday, a terrified Malia told of suspicious phone calls from a man who had introduced himself as a policeman and took a statement from her at Mwingi Hospital after the gun attack.
- The calls came after she had narrowly escaped being seized at a family gathering by four men, one of whom she recognized as the gunman who had sprayed bullets into her brother in hospital and the other as his companion who had stood guard at the door.
Police investigations into the cold-blooded killing of a patient in his Mwingi hospital bed has come under the spotlight following new threats against a woman who witnessed the brazen attack.
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Sharlyne Malia, sister of the 27-year-old hawker who was murdered in a Mwingi hospital ward by men who had earlier dumped him on a highway with bullet wounds, fears that her brother’s killers are now after her.
Malia witnessed the point-blank shooting of Frederick Musyimi last Thursday, as he lay in a ward bed at Mwingi Level Four Hospital – only hours after he had been shot and abandoned by gunmen who thought he was dead.
She was sitting by her wounded brother in the hospital’s Surgical Ward when a man walked in at 2am and emptied seven bullets into the helpless patient – clearly determined to complete the killing which Musyimi had miraculously survived.
Yesterday, a terrified Malia told of suspicious phone calls from a man who had introduced himself as a policeman and took a statement from her at Mwingi Hospital after the gun attack.
The calls came after she had narrowly escaped being seized at a family gathering by four men, one of whom she recognized as the gunman who had sprayed bullets into her brother in hospital and the other as his companion who had stood guard at the door.
Musyimi’s killing at a county facility which should have tight security was executed by two men wearing heavy jackets, who came to the hospital a few hours after he had been brought by two policemen.
Musyimi was on Thursday discovered weak and bathed in blood on the desolate Mwingi-Garisaa Highway by a boda boda after he had dragged himself from the bush. He had been tossed out of a white vehicle and shot repeatedly by men who had abducted him from his home in Majengo, Mwingi at 8am.
The killers drove 120 kilometres to Soma Soma junction on the Garissa Highway with their intended victim. They then pushed him out of the car, shot him in the head, left cheek and left ribs and drove away, thinking he was dead. Musyimi regained consciousness and crawled to the Mwingi-Garissa Highway, where good Samaritans, led by a boda boda, took him to to Ukasi dispensary.
Local police officers ferried him to Mwingi hospital, 50km away. One hour after his admission at around 7pm, two men pretending to be visitors tried to enter his ward but were rebuffed by the watchmen. They hang around the hospital compound and forced their way into the hospital at 2am, opening fire on the Musyimi, who was on a drip, as his horrified sister, Malia, watched.
It seems the killers now want to eliminate Malia, one of the witnesses to the killing, and the boda boda man who first found Musyimi by the road.
The two men with heavy jackets, whom Malia says she can clearly recognize, were in a gang of four who on Friday walked into a dowry ceremony at Malia’s village in Ukasi and moved around peering at faces, clearly looking for someone who had been described to them.
Source: Standard Media