The simmering anger in Huruma has boiled over after an autopsy confirmed that 21-year-old student Sheryl Adhiambo was executed by a single police bullet to the head.

The findings by pathologists Grace Midigo and Simon Omuok are chilling in their finality.The bullet entered the left side of her head and exited through the back, rupturing her cerebral cavity. There was no chance of survival. Sheryl, a Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC) student, was not a threat; she was simply helping her mother sell fish when a police operation against a robbery suspect turned into a bloodbath.

A Community on Edge

The Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) was present during the post-mortem at City Mortuary, a necessary step given the utter lack of trust between the community and the police. "The body had a single bullet wound," Midigo stated, a clinical fact that ignites a political firestorm.

The National Police Service claims officers fired "warning shots" to disperse a stone-throwing mob. But warning shots do not typically strike innocent bystanders in the head with sniper-like precision. This discrepancy is now the focus of the investigation.

• The Victim: A KMTC student with a bright future, gunned down while working.
• The Defense: Police claim they were under attack while arresting robbery suspects.

The Cry for Justice

Activists and politicians at the mortuary demanded immediate arrests. The narrative of "stray bullets" is wearing thin in Nairobi’s informal settlements, where police operations frequently resemble military incursions. For Sheryl’s family, the autopsy confirms what they already knew: their daughter was killed by the very people paid to protect her.

As Huruma braces for more protests, the question remains: Will the officer who pulled the trigger face the law, or will Sheryl become just another statistic in Kenya’s grim history of extrajudicial killings?