A 20-year-old student of Kirinyaga University died on Tuesday morning, after falling from the third floor of an flat in Juja, Kiambu county.
The second-year student Tylon Mbuthia is said to have visited his girlfriend Magaret Nyambura, a first-year student at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), when a fight ensued leading to his death.
“They partied and had a good time in the house on Sunday through Monday, together with Margaret’s roommate only identified as Shantel and another man identified as Joe.
“However on Monday during the day, they were joined by one Brian, a Fourth-Year student at JKUAT, who had come to pick the same girl the deceased had gone to see,” DCI said.
Once outside, they found the nearby eatery already closed and decided to continue partying at a nearby joint. At around 1 am, the four staggered back to Margaret’s bedsitter.
It is while scaling the flights of the stairs that Brian realized he was shortchanged by his lover. The cousin was his girlfriends’ other lover.
An argument ensued between Brian and the deceased leading to the tragedy.
“The two are believed to have fought at Margaret’s door before the deceased landed on the ground floor under mysterious circumstances,” DCI said.
Investigations into the death of the 2nd year Kirinyaga University student have since been launched.
Meanwhile, Margaret Nyambura, Brian Andaki and Joe Momanyi remain in custody as the main suspects, as experts from the Homicide branch join their Juja-based counterparts, to unravel the mystery.
