Four suspects arrested over expressway killings

Police have arrested suspects in the Entebbe Expressway shooting where Joshua Nteireho Rushegyera and Merina Tumukunde were killed last month.

Police spokesperson Fred Enanga did not name the suspects or how many they are, but police sources said four people had been arrested in Kampala.

Mr Enanga said detective received credible information that the arrested are positively linked to the twin murder.

“They were arrested over the weekend. Their interrogations are still ongoing,” Mr Enanga said yesterday.

Nteireho was shot dead near a car he had been driving while Tumukunde was shot inside the car between 10:30pm and 11pm near Nambigirwa Bridge on the Entebbe Expressway on September 5.

The police officers are now searching for the Toyota Harrier that the arrested people are said to have used on the fateful day.

The suspects were captured on a supermarket CCTV camera at Zana on Entebbe Road, but their faces were not visible in the footage reviewed by detectives.

The footage showed the suspects greeting the deceased and entering a restaurant and talking.

Nteireho then got into the car he had hired and the suspects entered a Toyota Harrier and followed him. Later Nteireho and Tumukunde were found dead on the expressway.

Since the incident, the occupants of the Harrier had not come out to give their account of events on their meeting with the deceased.

The suspects were arrested after a team of investigators analysed call data of people whose phones were tracked to places where the deceased went and were able to pinpoint the suspects.

Mr Enanga said the detectives had obtained credible information about the suspects earlier, but did not want to arrest them until they were sure they were catching the right persons.

Police had earlier arrested an officer whose gun was found at the scene of crime.

The officer claimed he left his official gun in the car of the deceased to go for a short call but returned when the deceased had driven away.

Investigations and analysis of security CCTV footage on Entebbe Road corroborated his narrative, persuading police to look at other clues.