With his gangmates dead, Rasta—the last of the 1990s’ top three most wanted gangsters—was able to stay out of the spotlight for a whole year. Bribing police officers who informed him of the Alpha Romeo and Flying Squads’ impending manoeuvres helped him survive in crime, partly because people were afraid to alert the authorities to his whereabouts.
If he believed his victims in the remote town of Kiria-ini, Murang’a County, had informed the authorities where he was, he was known to pull their fingernails.An expert marksman, Rasta would leave his forces in the care of the police in the event that they were ambushed. Rasta wasn’t willing to let it go even though his goons were occasionally captured. In one instance, his troops were shot and murdered in 1996 at the GSU intersection on the Thika Highway. In response to an attack on the unit’s headquarters, Rasta detonated a grenade, injuring a few men.
Being betrayed to the police was not something he took lightly. If he thought that person had notified the police where he was, he would abduct them, torture them, and maybe even kill them.He dared to approach the police on his own. Officers were forced to run for their lives when he once fired an entire magazine at them.
Following an anonymous tip, Alpha Romeo and Flying squads were able to locate him on September 1, 1997. They had found his hiding place, which was at a goat pen on his mother’s home in Kiria-ini, Murang’a County.
On this specific day at around five o’clock in the evening, the police followed Rasta’s sister as she entered the hideout to supply tobacco to her addicted brother. If the medicine ran out, he would grow sick.Rasta was the first to see the police, so he broke out of his hiding position, jumped the fence around the property, and ran towards a nearby valley while shooting at the cops.
A gunfight ensued, during which Rasta was fatally shot. He was shot multiple times and died on the spot.
One police officer sustained injuries to his knee and the other to his left arm during the altercation.
After Rasta was killed, what became of his wige?
The ultimate shooting death of Benard Matheri, also known as Rasta, in 1997, according to Wanjiku, turned her entire world upside down. She was feeling suicidal and distraught.
Two years later, she was arrested and charged with stealing Sh196 million in Meru; nevertheless, she was released in Embu in 2002 after fulfilling her sentence.
Before he died, Rasta spent several months defending himself against the charges against him.
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