Imran Ismail, 41 and an accountant at a Nairobi-based firm, was shot twice in the head while sleeping in his home in Midlands Estate at around 2 am Saturday, his family and police said.
The motive behind the incident is yet to be known so far and the family is shaken.
He was found in a pool of blood on his bed.
He was bleeding from the mouth and nose then.
Police recovered one bullet head and a spent cartridge from the room.
Preliminary findings show it was an inside job out of a family feud over the property.
Ismail was apparently alone in the room at the time of the shooting, police and the family said.
Ismail’s mother and his two siblings who were sleeping in the same house told police they heard gunshots and upon rushing to the room, they found the assassin had already escaped.
Imenti North Member of Parliament Rahim Dawood, a first cousin to the deceased and the family spokesperson, said the family suspected that the assassin gained access through the balcony of Imran’s room.
He said the balcony door was open and Ismail has not been closing it.
Homicide detectives from the DCI were on Saturday afternoon collecting crucial items that will help in the probe into the murder.
The detectives have asked the neighbors of the home to share CCTV footage captured at that time in an effort to get the attacker and motive.
The team took mobile phones belonging to some of those who were in the house at the time of the incident.
The body of the deceased was moved to Montezuma Monalisa mortuary in Nairobi for autopsy examination.
