Police officer kills wife and shoots himself for testing HIV positive in Uganda (photos)

On Thursday, February 2, a police officer was reported to have shot and killed his wife, before turning the gun on himself at the Nsambya Police Barracks, Uganda.

Late Esther Caroline

According to an eyewitness, the neighbors first confused at the first gunshot. Adding that, when she went back to check what had happened, she saw the blood and then heard the second shot and that at this point she made an alarm and run away.

“I advised the other neighbors not to go in there, and we waited until the police came,” the witness said.

However, police sources at Nsambya, informed us that Sabiiti who hails from Alur district, was deployed in Mbarara. However, Sabiiti has served in the police force for 12 years.

It is still unclear what transpired in the night between him and his wife leading him to shoot her dead and himself. Also, their bodies have been taken to the City Mortuary for post mortem. The late couple left behind three children.

According to Facebook user, Basudde Sam who shared the photos, the police officer, Mr Godfrey Sabiti a father of three took his family to go conduct a HIV test and allegedly discovered he was positive, he murdered his wife then wrote a suicde note before he killed himself.

However, it is reported that the test results of his wife and kids have been retrieved and it all reads negative. Basudde wrote:

"A police officer attached to VIP Protection Unit has killed himself after shooting his wife dead. Police say Godfrey Sabiti, a resident of Nsambya barracks killed his wife before turning the same gun at himself after he allegedly tested HIV positive. We have recovered the test results of HIV for the wife, Akol and the children except for the man. These reads negative. We suspect that the man must have found himself positive and took a wrong decision. He planned it since he took all the family members for HIV test on January 24, 2017, said Kampala Metropolitan Police deputy spokesman, Paul Kangave. This is the second officer to kill himself in just two months period. In December last year, Patrick Oloya, a Field Force Unit (FFU) personnel attached to Pader Central Police station ended his life after locking himself inside his uni-port house at the Police barracks.”

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Police officer kills wife and shoots himself for testing HIV positive in Uganda

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