Police on Tuesday explained the circumstances that led to the fatal shooting of former Siaya County Assembly Clerk Felix Isaac Olwero on Monday morning outside his resort in Kombewa, Kisumu County.
According to the police the incident happened when a team of police responded to the White House Resort in the area following reports of a burglary.
By the time police arrived at the scene, Olwero had mobilized about five locals and tried to hunt for the said burglars around the place.
“The deceased together with the five laid an ambush in an adjacent maize farm in efforts to get the said burglars.
The premise manager, oblivious of the said ambush, made a distress call to the police who rushed to the scene leading to the shooting,” police said.
According to the police, Olwero and the group charged towards the police also mistaking them for the said burglars.
It was then that the police opened fire in the confusion killing Olwero.
He was shot in the chest after he charged at the officers and mistook them for the burglars, police said.
Siaya governor James Orengo Monday demanded swift and thorough investigations into the fatal shooting.
Olwero was the husband of the Siaya County CECM for sports Angeline Oduor.
Orengo said he was devastated by the shooting.
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