Police have detained six foreigners and three other people for questioning after a 34-year-old Kenyan man died in a suspected fall from the eighth floor of an apartment building in Kileleshwa, Nairobi.
The deceased, identified as Raphael Gitonga, was found unresponsive on the ground at Kaptai Court on the night of October 18-19.
The two Dutch nationals, two Congolese, a Ugandan and an American, are being treated as persons of interest as detectives investigate the circumstances surrounding Gitonga’s death.
Police are pursuing several leads, including the possibility of suicide, but the circumstances leading to the fall remain unclear.
According to police, the incident was reported by managers at an adjacent building where Gitonga is suspected to have fallen from an eighth-floor window.
Preliminary investigations indicate that he landed on a hard surface, sustaining multiple injuries. Bloodstains were also observed at the scene.
Officers visited the scene and commenced investigations to establish what happened before the fatal fall.
Police said a total of nine individuals were arrested and taken into custody as persons of interest to assist with investigations.
Gitonga’s body was moved to Chiromo Funeral Parlour, where it is being preserved pending a postmortem examination to establish the cause of death.
In a separate incident, police in Kiambu County have arrested a 38-year-old man suspected of killing his wife after he was discharged from hospital, where he had been receiving treatment for serious head injuries sustained in an alleged suicide attempt.
The man was arrested on Sunday, October 18, 2026, after being discharged from a hospital in Ruiru, where he had been admitted four days earlier.
According to police, the suspect was taken to hospital on October 14 at about 6.30am after allegedly jumping from the Waki Stage footbridge onto the busy Thika Superhighway.
He reportedly suffered serious head injuries and was rescued by officers from Ruiru Police Station after members of the public raised the alarm.
The suspect man was arrested on Sunday, October 18, 2026, after being discharged from a hospital in Ruiru.
The officers rushed him to hospital, where he was admitted for treatment.
Investigators later linked him to the suspected murder of his 40-year-old wife, Mercy Wanjiku Maina, who was reportedly stabbed several times on the same day.
Following his discharge, police arrested the man and placed him in custody as investigations into his wife’s death continued.
Police said they were pursuing further inquiries to establish the circumstances surrounding the woman’s death and gather evidence for possible prosecution.
The suspect’s arrest comes as investigators seek to piece together the events leading to the woman’s death. He remains presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court.
