[A past photo of 23-year-old Anne Wanjohi who was shot dead by a police officer after she allegedly turned down his marriage proposal [Photo/Courtesy]
A love-struck police officer has brutally ended the life of his 23-year-old girlfriend after she allegedly turned down his marriage proposal.The lady identified as Annne and who helped to run her sister’s cyber café in Nairobi’s city centre, was shot five times on Saturday evening as she pleaded on the phone with the officer’s mother to reason with her son.The police officer identified as Constable Simon Njoroge Njau is now fighting for his life at Kenyatta National Hospital after he turned the gun on himself immediately after shooting his girlfriend.According to the Nation, the officer went into Web Link Cyber Café at Braidwood House on Tom Mboya Street, opposite the Nairobi Fire Station, and found Wanjohi attending to a client.“He wanted to talk to her about their relationship because she had wanted to break up with him over the past two weeks,” said Ashford Hinga, Wanjohi’s workmate.“Anne was attending to a client but he insisted on talking to her. She said she was busy and needed to finish with the client,” he said.Hinga added that when he was dismissed, the officer stormed out of the cyber café and told Ms Wanjohi he would be back in a few minutes.“While he was away, he kept texting Anne. He came back and found Ms Wanjohi getting her things ready to leave. He tried talking to her but she did not want to listen, and the officer pulled out a gun and shot her in the hand.When Anne tried to get away, he shot her again and again as he threatened to shoot the other people who were in the cyber café and those who came to see what was happening,” Hinga is quoted by the Nation as saying.Hinga said he ran away when Njau pointed the gun at the people who were standing at the scene.