Kenyan Olympic Gold Medalist Stabbed To Death

Agnes Tirop Jebet, a Kenyan athlete, who won gold at the last Olympic games in Tokyo, Japan, has been stabbed to death.

The Olympic star and two-time World championship bronze medalist was found dead on October 13, 2021 at her residence in Iten, Elgeyo Marakwet County.

Reports from Athletics Kenya fingered her ex-lover as the prime suspect.

The head of police for the area, Tom Makori said, โ€œWhen [officers] got in the house, they found Tirop on the bed and there was a pool of blood on the floor. They saw she had been stabbed in the neck, which led us to believe it was a knife wound, and we believe that is what caused her death.

โ€œHer husband is still at large, and preliminary investigations tell us her husband is a suspect because he cannot be found. Police are trying to find her husband so he can explain what happened to Tirop.โ€

Kenyan president, Uhuru Kenyatta, also reacted to the tragic loss.

โ€œIt is unsettling, utterly unfortunate and very sad that weโ€™ve lost a young and promising athlete who, at a young age of 25 years, had brought our country so much glory.

โ€œIt is even more painful that Agnes, a Kenyan hero by all measures, painfully lost her young life through a criminal act perpetuated by selfish and cowardly people. I urge our law enforcement agencies to track down and apprehend the criminals responsible for the killing of Agnes so that they can face the full force of the law.โ€

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