At a quiet homestead in Mwihoko, Kiambu county, sorrow hangs heavily in the air.
On Monday morning, police officers arrived with the kind of news every parent dreads.
Their only son, Corporal Kennedy Mutuku Nzuve, had died thousands of miles away in Haiti.
Inside the living room, his mother, Serah Nzuve, struggles to hold back tears as she recounts that painful moment. "They told me he passed on after an accident.