Detectives are hunting for a gunman who shot and killed a 25-year-old man in a robbery incident in Eastleigh, Nairobi.
The drama was partially captured on security cameras on Saturday, November 9 night.
The family of Abdirahim Abdullahi Ibrahim, 25, said he was meeting his girlfriend on Saturday night in one of the streets in Eastleigh when an unknown assailant approached them and pulled the trigger at point blank.
Security cameras captured the shooting which showed the assailant pulling the trigger at close range.
Abdirahim was shot below the ear, with the bullet exiting on the other side of the head.
The assailant then made away with his mobile phone, leaving the lady he was meeting stranded at the scene.
A man who was standing about two meters away was seen running away upon witnessing the shooting.
The gunman then reached out to a mobile phone that the man had and walked away.
According to the family, Abdirahim had been seeing the lady who works in one of the restaurants in Eastleigh as a waitress, and the two had decided to meet on Saturday night when the incident happened.
The motive is yet to be known but police say the target was the deceased.
The lady reported the matter to the Shauri Moyo Police Station.
A postmortem conducted at the City Mortuary with the request of the Shauri Moyo detectives revealed that Abdirahim died due to excessive blood loss following a gunshot wound to the neck.
The deceased was buried Sunday at the Lang’ata Cemetery in Nairobi.
The motive of the shooting is yet to be known. No arrest has been made so far, police said adding a team is pursuing the killer.
