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Officer linked to Lessos cobbler shooting charged with murder
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– The fired police officer was allegedly involved in the shooting of a 30-year-old cobbler in Lessos on June 25
– Sammy Onyango appeared in an Eldoret court where he denied the murder charges against him
– The charge sheet indicated he murdered Lazarus Tirop in cold blood in the said date
A police officer linked to the shoot of Lessos in Nandi county has been charged with murder in an Eldoret court.
The interdicted police constable Sammy Onyango appeared before Justice Hellen Omondi for allegedly shooting Lazarus Tirop who died on the spot.
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Chaos erupted on June 25 after the police officer killed Lazarus Tirop. Photo: The Star.
Source: UGC
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The charge sheet indicated Onyango killed Tirop on June 25, after he intervened when a police officer demanded a KSh 50 bribe from a boda boda for not wearing a mask.
Reports indicate the fired police constable was taken through a mental assessment and a COVID-19 test before taking the plea.
Onyango’s lawyer Judy Muiruri asked the court to release the suspect to be released on bail and the court will, thus, hear his bail application on Friday, July 17.
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Locals protested the death of Tirop and burn down the house belonging to the police boss. Photo: The Star.
Source: UGC
Until then, Onyango will be held at Eldoret West Police Station.
As earlier reported by TUKO.co.ke, the deceased, who worked as a shoe shiner in Lesson had stood from his workplace to intervene on a matter in which a police officer had stopped a boda boda operator.
It is alleged that the police officer was asking for a KSh 50 bribe from the boda boda operator after he found him without a face mask.
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The rider, however, pleaded for mercy attracting the attention of the shoe shiner and a cobbler who intervened to help the rider.
It was at that point that a commotion ensued between the three with the police officer taking out his gun and shooting the cobbler on the head at close range.
When word went around the villages over the shooting incident, angry locals streamed the trading centre burning tyres on the road.
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