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DCI identifies suspect in 19-year-old KIMC student murder

Purity Wangechi was found dead in Kiambu on May 14, 2022. [Source: DCI, Twitter]

The Directorate of Criminal Investigations has identified a suspect in the gruesome murder of a 19-year-old student at the Kenya Institute of Mass Communication.

Kiambu Deputy Directorate of Criminal Investigations Officer Hadick Jumba had told The Standard that Purity Wangechi Karinga’s body was discovered in a thicket in Buriria Village, with two stab wounds in the neck.

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