Shock engulfed residents of Kabale municipality in early hours of Sunday following a shooting incident where a civilian male murdered a female police officer.
Dennis Arinaitwe, a tailor in Kabale municipality shot dead his lover, Caroline Komuhangi, 23 years, a police officer attached to the field force unit at Kabale police station.
According to eyes witnesses close to the couple, the two have been in conflicts for long which made them separate recently.
Despite the break up, Arinaitwe demanded that Caroline comes back threatening to murder her in case she fails to return.
At around 9am, neighbors heard gunshots at the police barracks where Komuhangi and saw her lying in a pool of blood.
Arinaitwe allegedly tried to shoot himself after the incident but he instead injured his face and was arrested and rushed to Kabale regional referral hospital for medication.
The Kigezi regional police spokesperson, Elly Maate, said police have already embarked on investigations to establish the cause of this murder under KABALE CRB.232/2023.
Maate says this is the first time such an incident is happening in the region where a police officer is shot by a civilian using the officer’s own gun.
By press time, the deceased’s body had been taken to Kabale regional referral hospital for a postmortem while the killer was in the same hospital under treatment as he awaits the legal process.
BY DIANE AMPAIRE – KABALE