Sex, money and guns: The new anthem of feisty young criminals

A crowd viewing the body of one of the three gangsters killed by police officers in Nakuru town. They were trailed by flying squad after a tip-off while in a mission to commit a crime. The suspects are believed to have been terrorizing Nakuru residents lately.PHOTOS BY HARUN WATHARI.

Elijah Mbugua Njoroge, 20, was gunned down by the police on Friday night in Utawala, Nairobi,   part of two suspects whom police said were killed during a botched robbery in the estate they live in.

Njoroge had all characteristics you wouldn’t associate with the textbook description of a Kenyan gangster.