The gunman who shot and injured two police officers and a woman at the Quiver Lounge along Thika Superhighway has finally surrendered to the police in Nairobi County.
Dickson Mararo surrendered to sleuths at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations in Nairobi Monday after a police manhunt that lasted more than 48 hours after the shooting.
Mararo presented himself to DCI detectives accompanied by his lawyer Cliff Ombeta and recorded a statement before spending Monday night in police cells awaiting arraignment.
“Today I have surrendered him to the CID at the police headquarters and the matter has been taken over by the Special Crimes Unit to investigate it further,” said Ombeta.
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Cliff Ombeta and Dickson Mararo.
Through Ombeta, the 27-year-old suspect defended himself saying he had been provoked by the said police officers leading to the ugly shooting incident at the popular night club.
“He was with his girlfriend and he had been provoked quite a number of times by these officers who kept hitting on his girlfriend and trying to talk to her. Even at the times when he went to the toilet and coming back they’d try to make passes, they’d follow her even to the toilet,” said Ombeta.
He added, “So it reached a breaking point whereby he had to also involve a bouncer….and when he came with the bouncer you can see the officers even in the clip tryng to attack the bouncer….”
Cliff Ombeta.
The suspect has denied being a gangster claiming he was only waiting for things to cool down over the shooting incident before turning himself in.
even as Lawrence Muturi, one of the officers shot and injured in the arm during the ugly incident, was treated and discharged from hospital.
His colleague Festus Musyoka Kavuthi, who was shot in the neck remains admitted at a city hospital as well as Felistus Nzisa, the woman who was shot in the stomach and injured too.
Mararo is set to be arraigned on Tuesday to face attempted murder charges in Nairobi.
