NAIROBI: Another revelation has emerged in the murder case of slain journalist Arshad Sharif, which reveals that the journalist was shot at close range in the head by the Kenyan police firearms unit and six shots were fired at his Toyota Land Cruiser, JEE News is shown in the resulting footage.
A three-minute video available to JEE News shows the car with registration number KCG 200M parked at a secure police and intelligence facility here. The vehicle was taken to Kasserine Police Station, originally in Kajiado County, on October 24, a day after Sharif was shot dead on Magdi Road.
Businessman Khurram Ahmed was driving his car towards Waqar Ahmed’s farmhouse in the Tunga Market area when Kenyan police shot him on Magadi Road in Kamakura area. The footage shows a total of nine shots fired at the Toyota Land Cruiser V8. Footage and post-mortem confirm that Arshad Sharif was hit by two bullets. The first bullet was fired at Arshad’s head at close range when he was in the passenger seat.
Out of the nine bullets, two bullets hit Arshad Sharif and six bullets hit Sharif. Three of them hit the side of Khurram who was driving. Interestingly, he was not even injured in the deadly exchange of fire.
The first bullet hit Arshad Sharif’s side mirror, which hit his head and left a gap of 12 cm x 3 cm. The second bullet that hit Sharif in the chest was fired from behind through the boot of the car. The third bullet hit the back seat window just behind the driver’s seat. The fourth struck the front tire of the vehicle on the driver’s side. The rest of the bullets hit the right, left and left side respectively but on the bottom window. The ninth bullet also hit the rear window.
The shots that hit the rear window cracked the top of the rear window. This raises the question of how lucky the driver was to escape as all the bullets hit the car while two bullets hit the slain journalist, killing him.
These are some of the questions that Pakistan’s investigative team and detectives attached to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) are trying to find answers to. It is to be noted that the firing took place at a police road block, which was manned by officers attached to the General Service Unit (GSU).
It is not yet clear why the officers decided to block the road using stones, yet roads are blocked using spikes in Kenya. What was the reason for erecting the road block? Police in Kenya said a man identified as Douglas Wainaina reported to detectives at the Pangani Police Station that he had left his car with his son in a parking lot in the Negara area, but he could not find him when he returned. could
The registration number of the missing car is KDJ700F but it was a Mercedes-Benz, which is completely different from the vehicle in which Sharif and Ahmed were travelling. Details obtained by investigative reporters using the Toyota Land Cruiser Sharif and Khurram showed that it was registered on December 24, 2021 and belonged to Waqar.
A Kenyan medical report obtained by JEE News shows that Sharif died of multiple gunshot wounds from two different directions. It said Sharif was shot in the head at mid-range, but footage obtained by JEE News shows that the shots were fired at close range.
A pathologist at Chiromo Mortuary, who wrote the post-mortem report for the Kenyan police, said the senior Pakistani journalist died “of gunshot wounds to the head and chest caused by the use of high-velocity firearms at medium range”. The medical report listed the cause of death as “multiple injuries”.
It said that the first bullet entered the left side of Arshad Sharif’s head/skull measuring 12cm x 3cm, damaging a large part of the brain/skull. “The grazing gunshot wound left the parietal area and skull with skull penetration causing a (area missing part of the skull) stellate wound measuring 12 cm x 3 cm. ” Thus, the first shot caused “brain damage” in the “left parietal” brain region.
The second bullet entered the “right upper back” with a wound “about 1 cm in diameter,” the report said. It was located 3 cm from the midline and 30 cm from the top of the head.
The gunshot exited the “right side of the chest measuring 2 cm x 1 cm” and “had a pointed edge.” The report said that the second bullet damaged Arshad’s “respiratory system” and caused injury to “right lung, right hemothorax from penetrating bullet”.
After the death of Arshad Sharif on the night of October 23, 2022 by General Service Unit (GSU) policemen on Magdi/Keserian road, the police brought his body to Chiromu Mortuary.
