Boniface Mwangi Kariuki, the 22-year-old hawker was shot in the head on June 17, 2025 in Nairobi, had minimal chances of survival.
This was revealed after postmortem conducted on his body at the Kenyatta National Hospital Funeral home.
It was also discovered, during the three hour exercise, four fragments of a bullet were still lodged in the brain. "We reached a conclusion that the cause of death was severe head injuries due to a single gunshot and his brain was disturbed thus his chances of survival were minimal," pathologist Peter Ndegwa explained. "During The exercise, we also found some bullet fragments in the brain that were not removed during the first operation, they were four and blackish rubber fragments," Dr Ndegwa added However, he said it was not clear exactly when Kariuki died between the time he was shot and the time he succumbed in the ICU, adding that there was a lot of bleeding around the brain.
Ndegwa confirmed that the body also had minor bruises likely caused by the impact when falling after being shot but the distance from which Kariuki was shot from was not established.
