Kasarani Death Probe: Autopsy Report Shows Lady Who Fell from Apartment Did Not Have Stab Wounds
A postmortem on the body of a woman whose body was found in Kasarani after falling from an apartment says she succumbed to the fall injuries.
The body of Juanitor Mbula Nzomo, 20, was Saturday, March 2 found on the ground floor of an apartment she had spent the previous night.
She had fallen off the balcony of the tenth floor of the apartment in Thome, Kasarani, Nairobi.
Pathologist Dr Peter Muriuki Ndegwa said she suffered multiple force trauma injuries consistent with a fall from a height.
The autopsy was conducted Tuesday at the City Mortuary in the presence of police and the family.
Investigators now face challenges in determining whether her death was suicidal, accidental, or a result of murder.
Mbula’s body was discovered behind an apartment within Thome in Kasarani, Nairobi.
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She was half naked at the time the body fell off the tenth floor of the apartments.
She wore a red T-shirt at the time of the discovery.
When police arrived at the scene hours later, they realised the room she spent in, which also served as a short-term homestay was locked from inside.
The team contacted the owner of the room who arrived with a spare key to enable them access it.
Therein, they found an unconscious man lying on the floor with stab wounds.
He had bled profusely, which prompted the team to rush him to hospital but under watch.
The injured man told police Mbula stabbed him.
The room looked disturbed which indicated there had been a struggle therein.
Neighbors told police they heard the woman shouting for help at the balcony of the house before she fell off.
The DCI officers spent the better part of Saturday morning combing through evidence and interviewing residents and management of the apartment.
The officers are trying to unravel what transpired with pictures from the house showing bloody bedsheets and a bathroom.
Police said there were blood-stained bed sheets and blood splattered on the bathroom walls and floor.
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They suspect the man may have sought refuge in the bathroom after he was stabbed.
There is also a possibility he stabbed himself, police say.
Detectives have visited the apartment twice to unravel the 3 am incident that happened in one of the more than 200 units of the building that is both a residential place and has temporary stay apartments.
However, Airbnb has said the apartment was not registered with them.
The investigating officers collected forensic evidence, and personal belongings and secured CCTV footage that will help in their investigations.
Police said they had established the woman met the man in one of the entertainment joints along Mirema Drive in Roysambu on Friday night.
Hours later, they were seen dropping off one of their friends before heading to an apartment and later to a bar close to the apartments where they continued drinking inside a car.
Around 3 am Saturday, the two checked into the short-stay apartment they had booked on the 10th floor.
The police have visited the bar as part of the probe into the incident.
Nairobi police boss Adamson Bungei said they are waiting for the suspect to stabilize to tell his story as part of the probe into the murder.
“For now he is the main suspect in this incident as we investigate it,” he said.
The incident comes in the wake of increased such murders in short-term accommodation. They include that of socialite Starlet Wahu Mwangi and university student Rita Waeni Muendo.
The cases are pending in various stages.
Kasarani Death Probe: Autopsy Report Shows Lady Who Fell from Apartment Did Not Have Stab Wounds