Man shot dead after stabbing two police officers while resisting arrest

TODAY AT AROUND 1035 HOURS THE OCS MWATATE MOBILISED A TEAM OF FIVE POLICE TO REVISTED THE SCENE WHERE THE TWO OFFICERS HAD BEEN STABBED. UPON ARRIVAL THEY FOUND THAT THE SUSPECT NAMELY ISMAEL MWANDEMBO AGE 27 YRS HAD LEFT THE ORIGINAL SCENE AT MPINZINYI AREA MR DG ABOUT 5 KMS NORTH EAST OF STATION ACCOMPANIED HER MOTHER NAMELY MARIAN MWANDEMBO TO THE HOME OF FORESEER IN KIPUSI PRIMARY AREA. UPON SEEING THE OFFICERS THE SUSPECT WHO WAS SITTED IN THE COMPANY OF THE MOTHER AND ONE MWANAIDI KASSIM,STOOD, TURNED VIOLENT AND DREW A KNIFE. PC JOHN TERRY MUDIBO ORDERED THE SUSPECT TO DROP HIS KNIFE BUT HE DEF ONE OFFICER FIRED A ROUND FROM HIS REFILE TO WARN THE SUSPECT OF THE INTENTION TO USE THEIR FIRE ARM BUT HE DEFIED AND USED THE MOTHER AS HUMAN SHIELD BEFORE DRAGGING HER AND GAINING ACCESS INTO A NEARBY HOUSE. AFTER ABOUT FIVE MINUTES, THE SUSPECT EMERGED FROM THE HOUSE WHILE HOLDING ON TO THE MOTHER AND THREATENED TO KILL HER IF THE OFFICERS INSISTED ON ARRESTING HIM. HE WAS ARMED WITH A PANGA AND KNIFE. SUDDENLY, HE LET GO OFF THE MOTHER AND CUT ONE OFFICER ON THE FORE HEAD WITH A PANGA BEFORE MAKING TO GET HOLD OF THE OFFICERS SIDE FIRE ARM . CONSEQUENTLY THE OFFICERS DISCHARGED ROUNDS KILLING THE SUSPECT ON THE SPOT.A PANGA AND A KNIFE THAT WERE IN THE SUSPECTS POSSESSION HAVE BEEN RECOVERED AND KEPT AS EXHIBITS. THE INJURED OFFICER HAS BEEN RUSHED TO MWATATE SUBCOUNTY HOSPITAL FOR TREATMENT WHILE IN SERIOUS CONDITION.SCENE VISITED BY D/OCPD MWATATE , DCI MWATATE AND SCENES OF CRIME PERSONNEL. RIFLES HANDED OVER TO THE DCI MWATATE FOR BALLISTIC EXAMINATION. DCI ESTATE DEALING

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