NEWS– The territorial police in Kisoro District have arrested two suspects for allegedly murdering their biological father.
The deceased according to Elly Maate the Kigezi region police spokesperson is a 59 year old Silver Mushabe a resident of Igobero cell, Nombe parish Rubuguri town council in Kisoro district.
Maate identified the arrested suspects as Davis Halerimana 20 years a brick layer and Keneth Tukamuhabwa 20 years a student at Rutaka community secondary School both residents of the same above mentioned address.
It’s alleged that on the 20th October 2024 at around 8:00pm, at Igabiro village the victim was murdered by cutting by his own son one Davis Halerimana and two others accusing him of failing to pay him dowry because his wife had been taken away by her parents due to demand of their dowry.
The deceased had sold his land and the son was demanding the same to bring back his wife.
Police were alerted, the crime scene was visited, processed and documented and the body was recovered from the swamp where it had been dumped and
Postmortem was done hence the two suspects were arrested to help in investigations.
Inquiries into the matter are at hand and the case of murder by cutting has been recorded at Kisoro CPS vide CRB 769/24.