Remember the lawyer who allegedly accidentally shot dead his son?
The family of city lawyer Assa Nyakundi had remained mum following the incident, the kins who are yet to come to terms with the tragedy have break the silence.
Not only is the incident painful to them but it has reopened wounds of a similar earlier experience.
“We have no answers to the incident,” a member of his family in Kisii County said Wednesday as police continue to investigate circumstances of the Sunday shooting.
To his family, the shooting revives memories of the brutal murder of their father, Mr Michael Nyakundi, about a decade ago.
They were yet to heal from the wounds when they were hit by the latest death of Joseph.
“The Sunday incident has left us in shock. It is double tragedy with one of our own dead and another in hospital,” Assa’s younger brother, Bishop Eliud Nyakundi, who is a lecturer at Kisii University, told Nation.
“Memories of our late father are still fresh in our minds and the latest incident only adds salt to injury,” he said.
In 2010, robbers broke into the home of the the retired clergyman and shot him dead.
The armed gang stormed the home in Ikuruma village, Marani Sub-County in Kisii and forced the old man to lie on his bed before shooting him at close range as his wife watched.
The clergyman’s killing prompted the beheading of four suspected gangsters in the same village by the dreaded Sungu Sungu vigilante group.
“We are yet to come to terms with our father’s murder. He had just returned from the US after undergoing an expensive spinal surgery that cost the family Sh5 million. Why would anyone want to kill an 85-year-old man?” Assa had said about his father’s brutal murder then.
The city lawyer has four children the eldest daughter is married in Ireland while the other one is in Denmark.
The family further said that Joseph’s elder brother, Noah, who is an advocate and a partner in his father’s firm Nyakundi and Company Advocates — may have acted out of emotion and confusion when he made a controversial post on Facebook about his brother’s death.