DCI: Jeff Mwathi Was Killed Before Being Thrown From DJ Fatxo's Apartment

Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) have established that 23-year-old interior designer, Geoffrey (Jeff) Mwathi, was murdered.

Homicide detectives handling the case revealed to Citizen TV on Friday, March 17 that their preliminary findings ruled out Mwathi throwing himself from the 10th floor of the house of Mugithi artist Lawrence Njuguna alias DJ Fatxo at Redwood Apartments along USIU Road in Kasarani as previously reported.

Furthermore, the sleuths noted that after the scene reconstruction and forensic analysis, there were clear signs of a struggle inside the house of DJ Fatxo, who is a key suspect in the murder case.

DCI detectives at DJ Fatxo's apartment on March 10, 2023. /TWITTER

DCI detectives who took over the case from Kasarani police further believed that there was a possibility that a fight had ensued before Mwathi was dragged outside and thrown off from the rooftop or from the stairs of the 12-storey building apartment.

They, while ruling out suicide, further believed that Mwathi was killed before being thrown off the apartment as a cover-up to make it look like he took his own life.

Initially, it was believed that Mwathi jumped from the window of the bedroom but detectives ruled that out as it was impossible for him to fit through, given that the window had tight grills.

The DCI concluded the first process of the investigations which included interviewing of the first cluster of witnesses in the case, forensic examination of the scene and retrieval of CCTV footage that captured the deceased's last moments. 

"We are now progressing to the second phase of the investigations where several persons of interest in the case will be interrogated and appropriate recommendations made before being forwarded to the Director of Public Prosecutions for action.

"In the meantime, the public is requested to exercise patience as the Directorate endeavours to establish the circumstances surrounding Jeff’s untimely death," stated the DCI.

Among those persons of interest will include all the five persons who were at DJ Fatxo’s house on the morning of February 22, 2023, when the incident happened, as well as the police officers who handled the case first.

DJ Fatxo denied involvement in Mwathi's death, claiming that he was the one who went and reported to the police that Mwathi was missing. This was after he left in the company of three ladies but returned hours later but did not find Mwathi in the house.