The mystery behind Saturday night shooting of one Kenneth Watmon Akena, at Lugogo Forest Mall has taken a new twist after police confirmed that both the murder weapon and the cartridge from the bullet are missing.
Akena a social worker from Kitgum district succumbed to gunshot wounds at Norvik Hospital after being shot while in the Forest Mall Parking area.
Police has since arrested two people identified as Matthew Kanyamunyu and his girlfriend Cynthia Munwangari in connection to the shooting. The duo is said to have rushed the deceased to the hospital, before he implicated them in the shooting.
However, Police spokesperson Andrew Felix Kaweesi told the media on Monday afternoon that they are still struggling to reconstruct the crime scene at Forest Mall after it was established that the murderers cleaned up before leaving.
Kaweesi says the gun and the cartridge from the bullet are missing.
The Commandant Flying Squad, Herbert Muhangi, concluded that with the missing cartridge, the scene had completely been tampered with at the time crime officers arrived thus nullifying the report.
According to a source at the Flying Squad Headquarters, this is a sign of a well-trained individual having shot Akena.
During interrogation, Kanyamunyu denied owning or being in possession of a firearm but some of the neighbors interrogated at his Mengo-based home told police operatives that he has been moving with a pistol and using it to threaten people he disagrees with.
Kanyamunyu allegedly shot Akena after the victim reportedly scratched the suspect's car while parking his. A security guard who was at Lugogo Mall, who prefers to remain anonymous, says most witnesses point to a man as the shooter. He says their suspicion is that the gun has been hidden and the suspects are trying to get their way out.
Other people think he could have ditched the gun on his way to the hospital, where he rushed the deceased. However, police is still trying to piece together the information and has since called upon the public to avail it with any kinds of information that could help.
Kanyamunyu's relatives, on the other hand, state that Akena could have been hit by a stray bullet targeting Kanyamunyu and Munwangari.
The operatives who searched the suspect's home found no pistol, but were able to find documents indicating that Kanyamunyu is a Ugandan national.
Kanyamunyu in his statement says, "I only acted as a Good Samaritan and helped a man that I found lying in a pool of blood at Lugogo where I had gone with my fiancée to party."
The police spokesperson Andrew Felix Kaweesi told the press that police is still interrogating the security operatives attached to Forest Mall as well as reviewing the CCTV footage.
Kanyamunyu is a city businessman and Chief Executive Officer of Quantum Express Logistics located along Second Street in Industrial Area. His company deals in warehousing, Air freight, Customs brokerage, and ocean freight among others.
Munwangari is believed to be Kanyamunyu's companion and the two were travelling in the same car at the time of the shooting. Her social media account describes her as the CEO & founder of Bujumbura Fashion Week and CyMun Collection. She's a Burundian national.
Police is also investigating circumstances under which Akena's vehicle, a Blue Premio registration UAU 995G, moved from the scene of crime and was later found on Jinja Road.