Kisumu Shooter Identified As A Bright Student From Siaya

Detectives have identified the mastermind of Kisumu’s shooting incident two weeks ago as 25-year-old Ambrose Odero Owino.

His remains have been lying at a Kisumu morgue.

Detectives say the deceased, who died in a hail of stones and other crude projectiles from an irate mob after he snatched a firearm from a traffic Police Officer and opened fire killing two people and injuring several others, was born in Siaya in 1996 to Joseph Owino Omollo and Catherine Akoth Omondi, who later separated.

Described by his mother who lives in Siaya as a bright young man, Odero went to Sengere Secondary School in Siaya and sat his O-Level examinations in 2016 where he scored an aggregate grade of B- emerging the 7th best candidate in the school.

Therefore, Odero left Siaya for Kisumu in search of greener pastures, where his aunt secured him employment at Foam Mattresses Ltd.

” But for him to secure employment he needed to have an identity card and as detectives have finally discovered, Odero scanned an identity card belonging to one Fredrick Oduor Odera and replaced Odera’s names with his. He went further to superimpose his image on Odera’s, made a copy, presented it to his prospective employer and voila! He got the job. But his employment was short-lived since towards the end of 2019, every employee was asked to produce his or her original identity cards, in an exercise that was spearheaded by the National Employment Authority. Since Odero knew that he did not have an identity card, he absconded duty leading to his dismissal.” Said DCI

“Detectives obtained a copy of his dismissal letter from Jokali Handling Services, a human resource solutions company, which Foam Mattresses had contracted to offer human resource services. In the dismissal letter dated February, 2nd 2020, written by Dennis Ambeva Ludenyo, Jokali’s operations manager, Odero was relieved off his duties for failure to produce his personal documents as ordered by the National Employment Authority. “Your disappearance qualifies you to an employee who has deserted his work,” read part of the letter. Detectives are currently investigating the whereabouts of Odero since February last year when he was shown the door, until the day he staged the Kisumu shooting incident. ” Added DCI

Detectives are currently investigating the whereabouts of Odero since February last year, until the day he staged the Kisumu shooting incident two weeks ago.

Consequently, detectives are seeking to establish how and where he acquired the weapon handling skills that he displayed and who may have been his accomplices.