14-Year-Old Boy Arrested over Murder of Kenyan Radio Journalist Hassan Marjan

Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) have arrested a 14-year-old boy over the murder of Kenyan radio journalist Mohammed Hassan Marjan.

Marjan, who worked at Pamoja FM, was brutally killed on Monday, May 4th, in Nairobi’s Kibra estate while walking home from work at around 4 am.

The minor was arrested on Monday, May 11th, after police positively identified him following analysis of CCTV footage.

“In a group of four others, the suspect accosted the deceased, who was heading to his place after duty at the said radio station, violently robbed him in which process they stabbed him on the left side of the chest killing him instantly,” DCI said in a statement on Twitter.

His arrest comes barely a week after another suspect named Juma Hussein Mohammed, 19, was arrested in connection with the killing of 62-year-old Marjan. Juma was also identified from CCTV footage. 

Detectives are in pursuit of three other suspects and a woman believed to have been hosting them in her house.