Kenya police officer Samuel Tompoi
Kaetuai died from a single shot to his head, an autopsy on his body showed.
The family of Kaetuai said the autopsy was conducted on the body at the Chiromo Mortuary in Nairobi on Tuesday and they were satisfied with the results.
The body had been from Haiti to Kenya on Monday night ahead of the planned burial in his Kajiado home.
Kaetuai was killed in a confrontation with gangs in Port-au-Prince on February 23.
In Haiti, Father Wilder Jean-Baptiste, the parish priest of Saint Jerome Parish in Petite Rivière de l’Artibonite (Diocese of Gonaïves), presided over a memorial mass in honor of Kaetuai.
Saint Jerome Parish, founded on December 25, 1725, was filled with worshippers, including schoolchildren, who gathered to pay tribute to Kaetuai who died during an operation against the Gran-Grif gang in Ségur.
During the service, Venson François, head of the
Saint-Marc prosecutor’s office, read a condolence message from Haitian police
Director General Normil Rameau, urging the public to continue cooperating with
law enforcement to combat insecurity.
Local residents expressed their solidarity and called for continued operations against gangs in the region.
They vowed to support security forces on the ground and commended the bravery and determination of the joint PNH and Multinational Security Support Mission teams stationed at Pont-Sondé.
Kaetuai was among a team
that was pursuing a gang when he was shot in the head and died.
The Multinational Security Support Mission said he succumbed to injuries sustained during an operation.
Kenya has deployed at least 800 police officers under MSS mission to Haiti to help in combating gangs.
Inspector General of the National Police Service Douglas Kanja had last week led senior officers in visiting and condoling with the family and friends of Kaetuai.
The officers visited the family at Naserian Village, Kajiado East Sub-County, Kajiado County, as they mourned his demise.
Kanja eulogised Tompoi as a hero and ambassador who lost his life in the line of duty while defending global peace.
He acknowledged that the officer was well-trained for the mission and that his death is a great loss to the National Police Service.
He assured that the well-being of the officers deployed for the mission in Haiti remains a top priority of the Kenyan government, and there is constant communication with the team to ensure they receive the necessary support.
Haiti has been grappling with escalating gang violence, with the United Nations reporting that at least 5,601 people were killed in gang-related incidents last year—1,000 more than in 2023.
The UN also documented 315 lynchings of alleged gang members and 281 suspected summary executions by police. This violence has displaced over a million Haitians, according to the UN’s migration agency.
Gang control in Port-au-Prince has led to an almost complete breakdown of law and order, the collapse of health services and the emergence of a food security crisis.
More than 5,500 people were killed in gang-related violence in the Caribbean nation in 2024 and more than a million people have fled their homes.
Haiti's transitional presidential council, the body created to re-establish democratic order, has made little progress towards organising long-delayed elections.
