Kenyan Officials Connect Eastleigh Triple Homicide Suspect to Another Nairobi Murder
Snapshot of a Mystery: On a brisk October day in 2024, security cameras caught glimpses of Hashim Dagane Muhumed, already notorious in Nairobi circles, carting away two hefty bags from a Lavington apartment. The authorities suspect these bags held grim secrets—the dismembered pieces of Deka Abdinoor Gorone, the woman he was growing ever more notorious for allegedly killing. This chilling footage has added gasoline to the investigation and sparked a fierce debate around safety and justice in Nairobi. Source: DCI Kenya
“In the hustle and bustle of Nairobi, another dark chapter unfolds,” relayed AX. The tale of Hashim Dagane Muhumed, already no stranger to infamy due to a gruesome triple murder in Eastleigh, now entwines with a fresh accusation—a fourth shocking murder, raising hackles and demanding a cry for justice from a city left on edge over crimes that seemingly disregard humanity.
On November 6, the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) laid bare stunning progress. “Detectives unearthed significant clues,” they declared, regarding the tragic fate met by Deka Abdinoor Gorone. Just days prior, she was caught on camera picking up groceries at a local Quickmart, seemingly innocent, seemingly ordinary. Follow the footage a bit more and Gorone enters an apartment in Lavington alongside Muhumed. This, the investigators suspect, was when she faced her end. Fast forward 48 hours: Muhumed exits the scene of the crime with those ominous bags—a horrifying breadcrumb trail leading eventually to Lang’ata Cemetery.
The case deepens with every revelation, and whispers point to further complications involving the landlord of the nefarious Lavington apartment. Director Amin Mohamed of the DCI painted a grim picture of a man trying to cleanse his hands of guilt, “redecoration and all,” yet he’s evading capture by ‘playing ghost.’ Mohamed remains bullish, asserting that “justice looms for him too.”
As Muhumed sits behind bars, the dark cloud over Nairobi’s legal system continues to gather. It began as a tempest with the October 21 abduction and murder of Amina Abdirashid, her aunt Waris Dahabo Daud, and 12-year-old Nuseiba Abdi Mohammed—three Somali women from Eastleigh. The final act of disappearance is grim proof of society’s greatest fears coming to life—violence unchecked, lives extinguished. Nuseiba’s body bore the additional ignominy of assault while the others showed all-too-familiar signs of brutal ends: strangulation, mutilation, and fatal violence with post-mortems painting a bleaker picture.
The capture of Muhumed came after an intense pursuit through Nairobi, cornered at last in Starehe on October 27. It was a scene straight out of a thriller as investigators weaved through CCTV snippets—each frame like a page of a tragic novel—as they pieced together Muhumed’s journey. His vehicle, a Nissan sporting registration KDQ 718Y, was pegged on surveillance outside the Eastleigh residence of the three women, the fateful night they vanished. This road led authorities to a vital evidence trove inside the car, abandoned near Wakulima Market, which stoked the fires of guilt: personal items, traces of struggle, bits and pieces that whispered of the horror that transpired.
The evidence told tales of a ferocious fight, with forensic teams recovering blood and fibres—a mosaic of violence laid bare. The digital realm played its part too, GPS crumbs leading detectives right into Muhumed’s final hideout—a seamless, masterful unraveling of a sinister plot.
Delving into Muhumed’s past opens another can of worms. Whispers allege he was previously a law enforcer in Ethiopia, with a track record steeped in darkness—his wife’s death under suspicious, ominous circumstances. Upon his arrival in Nairobi, a chameleon act began, cloaked in false names and forged papers, he became a taxi operator in bustling Eastleigh. His ability to dodge the law’s net for so long casts a spotlight on Kenya’s vetting systems, forcing a re-evaluation of lapses that allowed such a shadowy figure to slip through.
With two separate murder incidents tied to Muhumed’s name, authorities dig deeper, seeking shadows that might support his escape—aiding hands, alliances made in silence, promises whispered in secret. In their pursuit of unmasking these horrors, will they discover more threads linking Muhumed to other unsolved terrors across Nairobi? Time will tell—a city holds its breath, hoping justice seals those haunting cracks.
Edited by: Ali Musa
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