{"id":144513,"date":"2025-06-30T08:18:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T08:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/nairobi-hawker-shot-by-police-declared-brain-dead"},"modified":"2025-06-30T08:42:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T08:42:45","slug":"nairobi-hawker-shot-by-police-declared-brain-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/nairobi-hawker-shot-by-police-declared-brain-dead","title":{"rendered":"Nairobi Hawker Shot by Police Declared Brain Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Kenya. <\/strong><\/span><b>The Kenyan mask vendor who was shot at close range by a police officer during a protest has been declared brain dead, his family announced on Sunday.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Doctors at Kenyatta National Hospital revealed to Kariuki&#8217;s family on Sunday that his brainstem is no longer functioning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We received a call from the hospital at 12.47 am saying that they needed to have a brief with us, and we have been told what is happening,&#8221; Emily Wanjira, the family spokesperson, told journalists.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The reality of things is that Boniface Mwangi Kariuki is declared brain-dead. The hospital bill is now higher than Ksh3 million. We are praying and hoping for the well-wishers because when someone is declared brain dead, we know what it means, so the brainstem of Boniface Mwangi Kariuki is not working any longer,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old <b>Boniface Kariuki<\/b>, a hawker like his father, was holding a packet of face masks and is believed to have been caught up in a confrontation with two officers in Nairobi as hundreds of protesters clashed with police.<\/p>\n<p>One officer, who had concealed his face with a mask, shot him at close range in the head as he walked away.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday&#8217;s protests in the capital followed tensions over the death of the blogger, <b>Albert Ojwang<\/b>, who was found dead while in custody at the Central Police Station.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Kenya<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Kenya. The Kenyan mask vendor who was shot at close range by a police officer during a protest has been declared brain dead, his family announced on Sunday. Doctors at Kenyatta National Hospital revealed to Kariuki&#8217;s family on Sunday that his brainstem is no longer functioning. &#8220;We received a call from the hospital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":144512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12],"tags":[544,8683,2193],"class_list":["post-144513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-politics","tag-protests"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nairobi Hawker Shot by Police Declared Brain Dead - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Kenyan mask vendor who was shot at close range by a police officer during a protest has been declared brain dead, ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/nairobi-hawker-shot-by-police-declared-brain-dead\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nairobi Hawker Shot by Police Declared Brain Dead\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Kenyan mask vendor who was shot at close range by a police officer during a protest has been declared brain dead, ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/nairobi-hawker-shot-by-police-declared-brain-dead\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-06-30T08:18:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-06-30T08:42:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2025\/06\/sm_1751256723.064396.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"538\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/nairobi-hawker-shot-by-police-declared-brain-dead#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/nairobi-hawker-shot-by-police-declared-brain-dead\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Nairobi Hawker Shot by Police Declared Brain Dead\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-06-30T08:18:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-06-30T08:42:45+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/nairobi-hawker-shot-by-police-declared-brain-dead\"},\"wordCount\":244,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/nairobi-hawker-shot-by-police-declared-brain-dead#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2025\/06\/sm_1751256723.064396.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Kenya\",\"Kenya politics\",\"Protests\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/nairobi-hawker-shot-by-police-declared-brain-dead#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/nairobi-hawker-shot-by-police-declared-brain-dead\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/nairobi-hawker-shot-by-police-declared-brain-dead\",\"name\":\"Nairobi Hawker Shot by Police Declared Brain Dead - 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