Life cut short: Four shots from police gun killed dreams of top student

Mourners at the burial of Carliton Maina at Kanorero village in Kangema, Murang’a County, yesterday. Maina was shot by police in Kibera, Nairobi, on December 22. [Boniface Gikandi, Standard]

The officer who killed Carilton Maina followed him to an alley after shooting him on his left ankle, cornered him between two stalls and shot him on his stomach, chest and face even after the student had surrendered and was pleading for his life.

The engineering student crawled towards the direction of his mother’s house just 50 metres away still insisting he was not a criminal, those who heard the commotion on Christmas Eve, recall.