23-Year-Old College Student Shot Dead While Heading To Club To Party With Friends

• Police in eastern Uganda are pursuing a group of assailants who shot dead a college student on the evening of Friday, April 26
• Twenty-three-year-old Patrick Olinga was on his way to a club to revel with friends when he encountered the gunmen
• Olinga had tried fighting off the attackers when they overpowered and shot him in the chest, killing him on the spot

Kai Eli, a journalist at TUKO.co.ke, brings more than three years of experience covering politics and current affairs in Kenya.

Uganda: Police in the eastern region of Kenya's western neighbour are pursuing assailants who felled a college student with bullets.

Twenty-three-year-old Patrick Olinga was on his way to a nightclub on the evening of Friday, April 27, to revel with his friends when he met his tragic end.

He was a student at Soroti Pharmaceutical College.

How assailants ended Ugandan college student's life

Olinga was killed by unknown gunmen boarding a vehicle, according to police.

Authorities on top of the matter revealed the goner was shot in the chest and dying on the spot.

"On Friday night a case of murder by shooting was registered at Soroti East Division police. It's alleged that the deceased left his home at about 10pm, as he was going to join his fellow students at Cloud-9 Club for Campus night,” The Monitor quoted acting East Kyoga regional Police spokesperson ASP Edison Obukulem as saying.

According to the investigators, the deceased was in the company of a friend when the assailants appeared.

They successfully ordered Olinga's friend to give up the laptop bag he was carrying which contained a laptop, ATM card and a medical insurance card.

Olinga would however defy the order to lie down as his friend fled the area.

He was overpowered and shot dead as he fought them off.

The body lay in a pool of blood at the scene before it was picked up and ferried to the Soroti Hospital morgue for autopsy.

According to the investigators, the scene of the crime was too dark, with the assailants capitalising on it to carry out their plot.

4th-year varsity student murdered in Kirinyaga

Previously, TUKO.co.ke reported on a fourth-year student from Kirinyaga University who was killed by unknown people.

The young man was said to have been attacked at the Kutus Trading Centre at around 9:00 pm as he was in the company of his friends, who were left in shock following the incident.

He collapsed and bled from the thigh after the attack his friends tried to call for help.

Mwea East sub-county Police Commander James Mutua confirmed the incident, saying a probe into the student's murder had commenced.

Proofreading by Asher Omondi, current affairs journalist and copy editor at TUKO.co.ke.