Forensics: Firearms failed tests

SEVEN police firearms handed in for testing in relation to an Erima shooting last year are not the ones used in the incident being investigated, police say.
Two men were killed and 11 others injured in the shootout but shells collected at the scene did not match any of the seven firearms handed in by the three units involved. The forensic science unit said tests carried out on the 163 shells by police investigators were not fired from the guns handed in for investigations.
However, one of the guns matched the bullets from another incident, also in Erima.
Despite continuous requests sent to the NCD police management for more firearms to be presented to forensics by the units, none had been forthcoming.
However, the forensics unit confirmed that a firearm used in the shootout was allegedly used in the 2017 shooting of 15-year-old Joe Michaels, also at Erima, behind the J-Mart Supermarket.
According to the officer in-charge of forensics Supt Philip Rambaliku, the bullet shells were collected at the scene of the incident.
“They were divided into seven different groups with two rifles examined, however, one rifle identified belonged to a NCD police unit,” he said.
“The firearm used in the shootout has been identified as the firearm used in the 2017 shooting of the young man behind the J-Mart Supermarket.”
Post-mortem of the two men killed had shown that both were shot with bullets fired from a 5.56 calibre rifle.
Eleven others injured were shot with a shotgun.