This archive report was first published on 17 July 2021.
On July 17, 2021, Rift Valley Regional Commissioner George Natembeya confirmed that Caroline Kangogo, a wanted policewoman, had taken her own life in her parent's bathroom.
According to Natembeya, Kangogo had returned home at around 5 am on the morning of her death, but did not enter the house. She then went to the bathroom, where she killed herself at around 7 am.
Kangogo had been on the run since killing a police officer, Constable John Ogweno, on July 5, and a former policeman, Peter Ndwiga, 32, at a hotel room in Juja.
Her parents, Barnaba Kipkoech Korir and Leah Jepkosgei Kangogo, apologized to the families of the two men she had killed, stating that they were also shocked by her actions.
"We are sorry to the two families who lost their loved ones," said Kangogo's father. "We are also shocked by her actions."
Her mother added, "She did something bad by killing people. If she had a problem, she should have come to us and not done something like this..."
On July 8, a post-mortem examination was conducted on Peter Ndwiga's body, which revealed that he died of excessive bleeding in the brain due to a fatal wound that entered through his left ear and exited through the right side of his skull.
The autopsy was conducted at the General Kago Funeral Home in Thika, and preliminary reports indicated that Kangogo had lured Ndwiga to a hotel in Kimbo area along Thika Road, where he met his death.
