A Kenyan couple found dead in their apartment in Dallas - US
By: KLN and Agencies
A Kenyan who has been named as Justice Mbaka and
his wife were found dead in their northeast Dallas apartment in what the police say is a likely murder- suicide. The late
is the Son of Andrew Mbaka Omwega of office of the president. Dallas
police say it appears the husband, 23, shot his wife, 20, before dousing their apartment with gasoline and turning the gun
on himself. Their names are being withheld pending notification of their next of kin.
“This
morning neighbors woke up to a strong smell of gas in the area,” said Senior Cpl. Kevin Janse, a police spokesman. “They
weren’t sure where it was coming from.”
The neighbors called
the fire-rescue workers, who came out to the apartments in the 11600 block of Audelia Road. Eventually, a maintenance man
realized the smell was coming from the couple’s apartment, police said. Authorities discovered the bodies about 9:30
a.m.
Last week saw a rise in number of Deaths amongst the Diaspora
Kenyans, A Steven Maina who was murdered in New Zealand, Gardson Mainge Kamau found dead in Plano Texas, and now this couple. A sad week for the diaspora.
“We’re not sure of his rationale or his motive for dousing the apartment with gasoline,”
Janse said, “if he was intending to light it or what he was planning on doing.”
Had the gasoline been set on fire, it could have taken many lives, Janse said. “It possibly could
have sent the whole complex up.”
Police believe the shootings
may have occurred about midnight.
“Apparently some of the neighbors
actually heard two gunshots around midnight,” Janse said.
“They
didn’t call 911 or take any action at that time.”
Police
were called to the apartments in May, when the wife reported she and her husband got into a scuffle over his cellphone use.
The husband and wife, who, according to county records, were married last year, declined to pursue any charges against each
other.
“From what the neighbors have been saying, and the maintenance
and the management, there was possibly some family problems going on, and that’s what may have led to this,” Janse
said. “But detectives are still trying to notify next of kin to get an exact idea of what was going on in the family.”
Source: Dallas Morning Tribunal.