Tragedy at Laikipia Varsity as Guest Stabs First-Year Student to Death in Heated Hostel Clash

Shock and grief have gripped Laikipia University after a first-year student was brutally murdered inside her hostel room near the main campus in Nyahururu.

Getrude Chepkoech, an English and Literature student, was stabbed to death on Wednesday afternoon at Peka Hostels. Trouble began when Ezra Kipkorir Koech, visiting from Nakuru, returned to the premises despite being thrown out a week earlier for causing a disturbance.

Finding his girlfriend away for exams, Koech confronted Chepkoech, who questioned his presence. Enraged by the confrontation, Koech locked the door and attacked her with a knife, inflicting multiple fatal wounds to her chest, head, and arms.

“We heard screaming from the room and broke down the door,” said a student neighbor who rushed to help. “It was horrifying seeing her on the floor while he still stood there with the knife.”

An angry crowd set upon Koech before police intervened and rushed him to Nyahururu County Referral Hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries on Friday. Police have since opened a full investigation into the tragic incident.

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