{"id":13014,"date":"2024-02-12T13:01:16","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T13:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=13014"},"modified":"2024-02-12T13:02:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T13:02:36","slug":"kelvin-kiptums-father-samson-cheruiyot-recalls-receiving-strange-visitors-4-days-to-sons-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=13014","title":{"rendered":"Kelvin Kiptum&#8217;s Father Samson Cheruiyot Recalls Receiving Strange Visitors 4 Days to Son&#8217;s Death."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kelvin Kiptum&#8217;s Father Samson Cheruiyot Recalls Receiving Strange Visitors 4 Days to Son&#8217;s Tragic Death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/marathon_record-holder_kelvin_kiptum_left_and_his_father_samson_cheruiyot.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13015\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/marathon_record-holder_kelvin_kiptum_left_and_his_father_samson_cheruiyot.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/marathon_record-holder_kelvin_kiptum_left_and_his_father_samson_cheruiyot-480x240.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 700px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking during an interview on Monday afternoon, Cheruiyot noted that Kiptum was his only son and his death was a blow to his family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cheruiyot further indicated that four days before Kiptum&#8217;s death, he received a strange visit from four individuals who refused to identify themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Unidentified people came to my house and told me that they were visitors,&#8221; Cheruiyot recalled stating that the four refused to disclose the motive of their visit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kiptum was my only child. Now he has left me and my grandchildren. I do not know what to do. If the government can, it should help us. We are stuck now with no one who can help us.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cheruiyot revealed that he was watching the evening news when he first received a call that a car belonging to his son had been spotted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kenyans.co.ke\/news\/97457-world-marathon-record-hold-kelvin-kiptum-dies\">Kiptum passed away<\/a> after a car he was driving landed into a ditch claiming both his life and that of his coach. A lady who was in the car with them survived after sustaining serious injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A police report indicated that he lost control and veered off-road entering into a ditch on his left side. He drove in the ditch for about 60 meters before hitting a big tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/marathoner_kelvin_kiptum_left_and_his_coach_gervais_hakizimana.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13016\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/marathoner_kelvin_kiptum_left_and_his_coach_gervais_hakizimana.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/marathoner_kelvin_kiptum_left_and_his_coach_gervais_hakizimana-480x240.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 700px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelvin Kiptum&#8217;s Father Samson Cheruiyot Recalls Receiving Strange Visitors 4 Days to Son&#8217;s Tragic Death. Speaking during an interview on Monday afternoon, Cheruiyot noted that Kiptum was his only son and his death was a blow to his family. Cheruiyot further indicated that four days before Kiptum&#8217;s death, he received a strange visit from four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13017,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13014\/revisions\/13017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}