Investigations into the circumstances under which city lawyer Assa Nyakundi shot and killed his son have taken a new twist after detectives stumbled upon 471 rounds of ammunition and two more guns in his house.
The pistol and the bullets of different calibre were found inside a safe in the master bedroom while the shotgun was recovered from a shoe-rack in an adjacent room used as a library.
“The firearm certificate and the civilian firearm certificate have been forwarded to firearms licensing board for verification,” police said on Tuesday.
According to investigators, Nyakundi’s Toyota Axion car was also subjected to ballistic examination and inside the vehicle, one spent cartridge was recovered under the mat of the front passenger seat and a bullet head of the same calibre was found inside the boot of the same vehicle.
Bloodstains were found on the upper left side of the back seat with a bullet hole visible about six inches from the blood stain on the backrest of the seat. The vehicle was also dusted for finger prints and samples collected for forensic examination.
Investigators have further disclosed that Nyakundi’s glock pistol which was recovered from him after the fatal shooting has been confirmed to be loaded with 13 rounds of ammunition and not 14 as earlier stated. The same has been taken for ballistic examination at the DCI headquarters.
Meanwhile, 60-year-old Nyakundi is recuperating at the Nairobi Hospital under police guard after suffering blood pressure complications while in police custody.
The body of his 29-year-old son Joseph Nyakundi is at Aga Khan Hospital mortuary awaiting postmortem.
Mr. Nyakundi, who reported the shooting at Muthaiga Police Station, told police that the incident occurred on Sunday as he was driving to his Muthaiga North home from ICC Church on Mombasa Road with his 29-year-old son.
He claims that as they neared his house, he reached for his pistol from the right seat pouch and in the process to holster the gun, he ‘accidentally’ pulled the trigger, shooting his son, who was on the back seat in the chest.
The lawyer said the son was pronounced dead on arrival at the Aga Khan hospital where he rushed him.