The Police in Kisoro District are investigating circumstances under which a Kisoro based Lawyer was shot dead last night.
Kigezi Regional Police Spokesman Elly Maate told this Online Publication that Lawyer Sendegeya Issac was shot dead in the wee hours of July 21st 2019, by yet to be identified thugs at the gate / door of his residence in Nturo village, Chihe Parish in Nyakinama Sub County in Kisoro district.
“We received a distress call about the shooting and when police officers responded they found the man already dead” Maate said.
Maate said that after the shooting, the relatives of Sendegeya in a bid to save him removed him from the spot where he had been shot and put him in his sitting room and this act interfered with scene of crime procedures making investigation difficult.
“The Police however discovered one cartridge at the scene and that will be used to help in establishing the origin of the gun that was used by the assailants” Maate explained.
Maate said that the body of Sendegeya who owned Law chambers in Kisoro Town has been taken to hospital for a post mortem report to be carried out as Investigation into the shooting continue.
A case of murder by shooting has been registered under reference number SD 02/21/06/2019 at Kisoro Police Station to help in further investigations.
Kisoro LC 5 Chairman Abel Bizimana said that the district has lost a human rights activist and advocate who was helping the local people access justice.
Maate said a manhunt for the assailants who are moving with a gun is going on in Kisoro District and the place being close to Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda borders, security has been tightened to ensure that the assailants do not sneak out of the country.
Kigezi Regional Police Spokesman Elly Maate told this Online Publication that Lawyer Sendegeya Issac was shot dead in the wee hours of July 21st 2019, by yet to be identified thugs at the gate / door of his residence in Nturo village, Chihe Parish in Nyakinama Sub County in Kisoro district.
“We received a distress call about the shooting and when police officers responded they found the man already dead” Maate said.
Maate said that after the shooting, the relatives of Sendegeya in a bid to save him removed him from the spot where he had been shot and put him in his sitting room and this act interfered with scene of crime procedures making investigation difficult.
“The Police however discovered one cartridge at the scene and that will be used to help in establishing the origin of the gun that was used by the assailants” Maate explained.
Maate said that the body of Sendegeya who owned Law chambers in Kisoro Town has been taken to hospital for a post mortem report to be carried out as Investigation into the shooting continue.
A case of murder by shooting has been registered under reference number SD 02/21/06/2019 at Kisoro Police Station to help in further investigations.
Kisoro LC 5 Chairman Abel Bizimana said that the district has lost a human rights activist and advocate who was helping the local people access justice.
Maate said a manhunt for the assailants who are moving with a gun is going on in Kisoro District and the place being close to Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda borders, security has been tightened to ensure that the assailants do not sneak out of the country.
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