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<\/div>The body of Jacob Masha was found in his official residence lying in a pool of blood.<\/strong> [Mate Tongola, Standard]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n A 32-year-old Police Constable in Mombasa has committed suicide inside his residence at the police line.\n<\/p>\n The body of Jacob Masha was found by police officers lying in a pool of blood, with a firearm between his legs after a neighbour reported gunshot sounds emanating from the house. <\/p>\n A police report filed at Makupa Police Station on Sunday, January 9 evening indicated that the deceased was found lying in a pool of blood with a gunshot on his chin.\n<\/p>\n \u201cPC Jacob Masha, a Giriama male adult aged 32yrs was found lying in a pool of blood with a gunshot on his chin and the bullet exited through the forehead,\u201d a snippet of the police reports as seen by The Standard<\/em> read.<\/p>\n According to the investigators, a neighbour (who is also a police officer) filed a report at\u00a01952hours after hearing a gunshot from his neighbour\u2019s room at the police line.\n<\/p>\n \u201cThe door of the said room was locked from inside so the officers were forced to break the door and found the deceased,\u201d the report added.\n<\/p>\n Makupa Police Station OCS and other scenes of crime officers visited and processed the scene, recovering a G-3 rifle and one spent cartridge of 7.62mm. <\/p>\n However, the police say the motive of the suicide has not been established because no suicide note was found at the scene.\n<\/p>\n On the contrary, inside sources that have spoken to The Standard<\/em>\u00a0but are not allowed to speak to the media allege that the officer committed suicide as a result of frustrations at his workplace.\n<\/p>\n DCI-Mombasa branch has opened an inquest to probe the officer\u2019s death. The body was moved to Coast General Teaching and Referral Hospital mortuary awaiting autopsy.\n<\/p>\n Additional reporting by Mate Tongola.<\/strong><\/em>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The body of Jacob Masha was found in his official residence lying in a pool of blood. [Mate Tongola, Standard] A 32-year-old Police Constable in Mombasa has committed suicide inside his residence at the police line. The body of Jacob Masha was found by police officers lying in a pool of blood, with a firearm […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}