{"id":9315,"date":"2025-04-21T10:24:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T10:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/?p=9315"},"modified":"2025-04-21T10:30:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T10:30:31","slug":"police-officer-arrested-for-shooting-civilian-dead-in-hoima-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2025\/04\/21\/police-officer-arrested-for-shooting-civilian-dead-in-hoima-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Officer Arrested for Shooting Civilian Dead in Hoima City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Johnson Kanyesige<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Police in Hoima City have arrested and detained their own for allegedly shooting dead an unidentified male adult last night.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect is AIP Reuben Kwihangana, a scene of crime officer (SOCO) attached to Hoima Rural police station. The incident occurred in Lusaka lower cell in Hoima West division, in Hoima City.<\/p>\n<p>According to eyewitnesses, the incident occurred after the officer collided with the deceased who were both riding motorcycles whose registration numbers were unavailable by press time.<\/p>\n<p>After the collision, a ccuffle ensued between the two leading to the officer to pull out a pistol and shoot the deceased several times killing him instantly.<\/p>\n<p>The witnesses have condemned the act of the officer over the misuse of the gun which is supposed to protect the people instead of shooting them when a disagreement happens.<\/p>\n<p>Julius Allan Hakiiza, the Albertine Refional Police Spokesperson has confirmed the incident adding that they have arrested and detained their own as investigations get underway.<br \/>\nHe adds that police detectives have visited the crime scene and discovered 12 cartridges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Johnson Kanyesige Police in Hoima City have arrested and detained their own for allegedly shooting dead an unidentified male adult last night. The suspect is AIP Reuben Kwihangana, a scene of crime officer (SOCO) attached to Hoima Rural police station. The incident occurred in Lusaka lower cell in Hoima West division, in Hoima City. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bunyoro","8":"category-news"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9321,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9315\/revisions\/9321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}