In Summary:
- The superintendent of police Lucas Ongaya,revealed that Ahmed Rashid was mostly a night duty officer.
- He found a homemade pistol at the scene of murder.
The superintendent of police Lucas Ongaya, who at the time was the OCS Pangani Police Station has revealed that Ahmed Rashid was mostly a night duty officer.
Ahmed was the officer in charge of special unit code-named Pangani nine.
On March 31, 2017, Ongaya says he heard a chatter in the police radio at around afternoon, that the police had disrupted a robbery and two men were shot in the process.
A third suspect had escaped. Before he could intervene, the court heard that Ongaya was called by his superior, telling him to go to the scene.
He did so and upon arrival at around 1533hrs, he found a crowd in the area.
In the middle of the crowd, then Pangani OCPD said, was lying two young men, motionless and they appeared to have been shot.
“I entered into the circle and on the road where lying two young men who appeared to have been shot. There was a lot of blood. They were lying about two meters apart and were motionless,” he said.
Near the victims were live bullets, cartridges and a homemade pistol, silver in color.
Ongaya said he was still looking at the scene when Ahmed came to him and reported what had been earlier reported on the radios.
After accessing the scene, he called the DCI Scene of Crime (SOC) personnel who photographed and documented the scene.
They collected the exhibits they saw around including cartridges used during the firing, homemade gun and some few bullet heads of the ammunition used.
They also checked the bodies for any other evidence but according to the Superintendent, they found none.
After, the Pangani team removed the bodies from the scene and took them to the mortuary where they were marked as unknown because there was no identification.
They then book a report of the incident under OB No 67 at around 1658hrs, and send signals to the Head Quarters and to the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA).
On April 1, 2017, Ongaya stated that officers from homicide DCI Headquarters came to the office and requested to be taken back to the shooting incident scene.
There, they reconstructed the scene and carried out investigations before going back to the station where they collected several items.
He said they took the homemade pistol, three rounds of 9mm live ammunition, two spent bullet heads collected around the bodies, four pieces of fragments collected around the bodies , 10 rounds of spent cartridges collected around the bodies, OB book of the station with records as of March 3, to April 1, 2017 and the firearms movement register.
The hearing has been adjourned for Thursday when the cross-examination is expected to take place.
