{"id":17344,"date":"2025-03-12T12:20:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T12:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=17344"},"modified":"2025-03-12T12:21:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T12:21:00","slug":"suspect-arrested-in-connection-to-fatal-attack-in-kirinyaga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=17344","title":{"rendered":"Suspect Arrested in Connection to Fatal Attack in Kirinyaga."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Untitled-3-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17345\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Police in Kirinyaga County have arrested <strong>Nicholas Muriuki<\/strong>, a suspect linked to the <strong>fatal attack of Stanley Mwangi<\/strong>, 40, in <strong>Kiamutuira village<\/strong> on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Confirming the arrest on Wednesday, <strong>Kirinyaga Central Sub-County Police Commander John Torori<\/strong> said Muriuki was apprehended at his hideout after detectives acted on a tip-off. Another suspect, who was also allegedly involved in the attack, is still at large.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to police, Mwangi was attacked while heading home from <strong>Mugaya shopping centre<\/strong> after a night out at a local bar. His brother, <strong>Charles Muthii<\/strong>, said he raised an alarm when the attack happened, but by the time people responded, the two suspects had fled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Muriuki is currently being held at <strong>Kerugoya Police Station<\/strong>, while Mwangi\u2019s body has been taken to <strong>Kerugoya Hospital Mortuary<\/strong> pending a postmortem examination. Police have intensified efforts to track down the second suspect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Kirinyaga County have arrested Nicholas Muriuki, a suspect linked to the fatal attack of Stanley Mwangi, 40, in Kiamutuira village on Sunday. Confirming the arrest on Wednesday, Kirinyaga Central Sub-County Police Commander John Torori said Muriuki was apprehended at his hideout after detectives acted on a tip-off. Another suspect, who was also allegedly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17345,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Untitled-3-8.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17344","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=17344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17346,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17344\/revisions\/17346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}